Yana — #1883 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Yana

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,595 babies named Yana between 1955 and 2024, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yana currently holds the #1883 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 106 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yana performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 869 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Yana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 354 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Washington and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Yana in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yana 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 2,595 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.