Yana
Yana was given to 75 girls in 2025, #2,409 among girls’ names; 2,670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,620 Americans named Yana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yana is “a female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).”
Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).
/ˈjɑː.nə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yana?
#2,409 among girls’ names, 2025
Yana fell from #1,983 in 2015 to #2,409 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.6 to 46.7 per million.
106 babies in 2024, the peak
Yana peaked in 2024, when 106 girls were given it, #1,893 among girls’ names. The 75 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,409 | 46.7 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,893 | 65.4 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,921 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,929 | 63.4 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,711 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,062 | 55.7 |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,168 | 51.2 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,178 | 51.1 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,182 | 51.0 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,187 | 50.2 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,983 | 56.6 |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,138 | 50.4 |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,107 | 51.9 |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,546 | 40.9 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,612 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,075 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,147 | 51.2 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,556 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,133 | 49.4 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,205 | 46.3 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,340 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,775 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,632 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,008 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,361 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,176 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,634 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,016 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,406 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,934 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,942 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,303 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,758 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,494 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,968 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,861 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,732 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,675 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,289 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,719 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,023 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,218 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,815 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,529 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,566 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,904 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,775 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,857 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,482 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,205 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,156 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,452 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,581 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,891 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,611 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,051 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,048 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,143 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,804 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,517 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,000 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,646 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,572 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,845 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,314 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,193 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,886 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,304 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,758 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,200 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yana, and how old are they?
2,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,670 Americans ever recorded as Yana. The median Yana alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 5,806 people named Yana (5,777 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 83 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 188 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 977 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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).
Where are babies named Yana born?
The states with the most babies named Yana are New York, California and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,412 | 1.0× |
| California | 9 | #2,271 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,238 | 3.0× |
Where Yana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yana is most over-represented in Washington: since 1955 it was given 3.0 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 Yana 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,889 babies since 1880, Yana is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 75 of their 438 babies (17%), again the second most given.
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 Yana
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 Yana and names like it
- Compare Yana and YunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYana peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yana since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.