Yoanna
Yoanna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,899 among girls’ names; 673 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yoanna?
#11,899 among girls’ names, 2025
Yoanna fell from #7,994 in 2015 to #11,899 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.0 per million.
37 babies in 2007, the peak
Yoanna peaked in 2007, when 37 girls were given it, #4,207 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,899 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,430 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,148 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,202 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,178 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,218 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,580 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,590 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,819 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,275 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,994 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,039 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,973 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,606 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,138 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,628 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,083 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,354 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,207 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,806 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,697 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,983 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,660 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,266 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,934 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,199 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,698 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,004 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,270 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,055 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,065 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #5,009 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,487 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,710 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,417 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,276 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,437 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,777 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,548 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,398 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,040 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,395 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,168 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 664 Americans named Yoanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 822 people named Yoanna (817 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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.
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 Yoanna born?
The states with the most babies named Yoanna are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 143 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Yoanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yoanna is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 1.6 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 Yoanna 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 8,482 babies since 1880, Yoanna is the fifth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 214 babies (3.7%), the seventh 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 Yoanna
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 Yoanna and names like it
- Compare Yoanna and YanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYoanna peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Yoanna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yoanna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.