Yaffa — #9646 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Yaffa

The Social Security Administration has registered 440 babies named Yaffa between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yaffa currently holds the #9646 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yaffa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Yaffa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 165 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yaffa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yaffa 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 440 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.