Yanna
Yanna was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,117 among girls’ names; 608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanna?
#7,117 among girls’ names, 2025
Yanna rose from #7,990 in 2015 to #7,117 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 10.0 per million.
33 babies in 2009, the peak
Yanna peaked in 2009, when 33 girls were given it, #4,565 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,117 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,416 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,028 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,209 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,006 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,836 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,579 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,130 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,319 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,217 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,990 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,287 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,091 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,127 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,762 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,589 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,565 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,446 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,381 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,116 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,478 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,201 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,566 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,030 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,305 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,514 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,453 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,513 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,618 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,111 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,631 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,784 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,531 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,567 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,022 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,768 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,523 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,304 | 4.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #9,000 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,551 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,423 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,285 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,252 | 6.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,308 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 599 Americans named Yanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,218 people named Yanna (1,208 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 509 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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).
How common is the spelling Yanna?
Yanna is a less common spelling of Iyanna: SSA has recorded 608 Yanna and 5,403 Iyanna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,431 babies since 1880, Yanna is the seventh most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 527 babies (3.0%), the fifth 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 Yanna
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 Yanna and names like it
- Compare Yanna and IyannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYanna peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Yanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.