Yaffa
Yaffa was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,547 among girls’ names; 463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yaffa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yaffa?
#5,547 among girls’ names, 2025
Yaffa rose from #8,911 in 2015 to #5,547 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 14.3 per million.
23 babies in 2025, the peak
Yaffa peaked in 2025, when 23 girls were given it, #5,547 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 10 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,547 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,227 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,138 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,643 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,004 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,925 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,404 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,585 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,750 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,911 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,915 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,963 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,391 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,107 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,875 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,355 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,443 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,785 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,575 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,443 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,858 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,283 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,260 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,321 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,712 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,639 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,390 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,675 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,762 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,384 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,526 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,100 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,166 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,327 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,370 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,285 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,506 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,464 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,389 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,035 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,220 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,117 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,434 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,333 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,268 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,593 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,070 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,269 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,375 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,191 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yaffa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yaffa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yaffa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yaffa, and how old are they?
An estimated 454 Americans named Yaffa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Yaffa (581 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Yaffa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #937 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,825 | 5.7× |
Where Yaffa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yaffa is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yaffa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 598 babies since 1880, Yaffa is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 47 babies (49%), the second 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 Yaffa
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 Yaffa and names like it
- Compare Yaffa and YafaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYaffa peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yaffa since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yaffa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yaffa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.