Yena
Yena was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,470 among girls’ names; 311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yena?
#7,470 among girls’ names, 2025
Yena rose from #10,120 in 2015 to #7,470 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 9.3 per million.
20 babies in 2013, the peak
Yena peaked in 2013, when 20 girls were given it, #6,450 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,470 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,577 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,278 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,453 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,435 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,549 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,699 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,774 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,661 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,831 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,120 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,621 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,450 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,859 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,700 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,896 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,949 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,453 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,562 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,385 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,395 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,593 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,484 | 7.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,303 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,762 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,534 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yena, and how old are they?
An estimated 309 Americans named Yena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 488 people named Yena (484 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 9,355 babies since 1880, Yena is the seventh most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 402 babies (3.7%), the fourth 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 Yena
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 Yena and names like it
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Yena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.