Iyanu — unisex name
21 babies named Iyanu in U.S. Social Security records since 2019, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Iyanu was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Iyanu in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Iyanu
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Iyanu between 2019 and 2021, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Iyanu currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Iyanu is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 2018.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Iyanu performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Iyanu shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Iyanu 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 21 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.
Iyanu at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Iyanu popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2019
- Peak year (2019)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 3 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
21 total births across 3 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 9 births in a single year.
Iyanu popularity over time — boys
16 total births recorded since 2018 (Iyanu as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Iyanu accounts for 43% of total recorded use across both genders.
Iyanu by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 12 births that decade — 57% of Iyanu's all-time total
Iyanu decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 9 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Iyanu's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2019–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.