Ya — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ya

The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Ya between 1999 and 2004, spanning 6 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Ya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 28 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Ya shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ya 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 34 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.