Iyonna
Iyonna was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,428 among girls’ names; 1,770 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Iyonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Iyonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Iyonna?
#10,428 among girls’ names, 2025
Iyonna fell from #3,153 in 2015 to #10,428 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 5.6 per million.
103 babies in 2005, the peak
Iyonna peaked in 2005, when 103 girls were given it, #1,881 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,428 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,376 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,826 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,964 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,144 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,804 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,682 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,809 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,328 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,350 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,153 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,019 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,021 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,640 | 38.6 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,397 | 43.8 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,209 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,252 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,084 | 51.8 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,187 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 87 | #2,214 | 45.8 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,881 | 55.7 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,006 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,287 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,181 | 42.3 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,339 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,642 | 30.8 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,339 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,369 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,054 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,452 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,518 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,095 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,880 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,117 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,598 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,031 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,097 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,340 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,990 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,749 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,439 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,965 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,911 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Iyonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Iyonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Iyonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Iyonna, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,770 Americans ever recorded as Iyonna. The median Iyonna alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,206 people named Iyonna (1,203 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 416 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Iyonna?
Iyonna is a less common spelling of Iona: SSA has recorded 1,770 Iyonna and 12,261 Iona since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,472 babies since 1880, Iyonna is the fourth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 293 babies (3.1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Iyonna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Iyonna and names like it
- Compare Iyonna and IonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIyonna peaked in 2005.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Iyonna since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Iyonna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Iyonna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.