Yanai
Yanai is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,882 among girls’ names and #8,221 among boys’, #10,956 among all names counting both); 160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanai?
#10,882 among girls’ names, 2025
Yanai entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,882 in 2025.
22 babies in 2023, the peak
Yanai peaked in 2023, when 22 babies were given it (13 girls, #8,465 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,882 | 10 | #8,221 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,075 | 5 | #14,187 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,465 | 9 | #8,882 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,519 | 9 | #8,947 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,105 | 8 | #9,660 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,963 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #12,076 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,258 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,758 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,707 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | #11,586 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,380 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,727 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,712 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,737 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yanai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 160 Americans recorded as Yanai, 68% are girls and 33% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yanai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanai, and how old are they?
An estimated 159 Americans named Yanai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Yanai (173 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 67 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,270 babies since 1880, Yanai is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 421 babies (4.5%), the third 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 Yanai
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 Yanai and names like it
- Compare Yanai and YunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYanai peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanai since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Yanai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yanai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.