Yanitza — girls' name

What the Data Says About Yanitza

The Social Security Administration has registered 638 babies named Yanitza between 1978 and 2023, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yanitza currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yanitza performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 270 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yanitza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arizona and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yanitza in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yanitza 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 638 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.