Iyanla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Iyanla

The Social Security Administration has registered 245 babies named Iyanla between 1998 and 2014, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Iyanla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 49 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Iyanla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Iyanla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Iyanla in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Iyanla in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 245 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.