Yanai — #10509 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Yanai

The Social Security Administration has registered 99 babies named Yanai between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yanai currently holds the #10509 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Yanai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 42 additional births since 2019.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yanai performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 38 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yanai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yanai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yanai 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 99 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.