Yoana
Yoana was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,339 among girls’ names; 1,556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Yoana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yoana?
#8,339 among girls’ names, 2025
Yoana fell from #6,023 in 2015 to #8,339 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 8.1 per million.
93 babies in 2001, the peak
Yoana peaked in 2001, when 93 girls were given it, #1,882 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,339 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,660 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,907 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,662 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,398 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,839 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,321 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,231 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,510 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,588 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,023 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,448 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,244 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,481 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,555 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,019 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,404 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,171 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,164 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,813 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,751 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,844 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,278 | 41.0 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,812 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,882 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,452 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,564 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,643 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,444 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,894 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,046 | 38.1 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,695 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,045 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,228 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,199 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,792 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,395 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,055 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,605 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,533 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,619 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,986 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #9,007 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,940 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,959 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,144 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,949 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoana, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,556 Americans ever recorded as Yoana. The median Yoana alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,009 people named Yoana (1,996 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,414 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 446 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 792 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 272 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yoana born?
The states with the most babies named Yoana are California, Texas and Florida, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 474 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 188 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yoana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yoana is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yoana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,445 babies since 1880, Yoana is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 471 babies (2.8%), the sixth 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 Yoana
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 Yoana and names like it
- Compare Yoana and YunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYoana peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoana since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Yoana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yoana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.