Yona
Yona is given to both girls and boys: 18 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,536 among girls’ names and #6,128 among boys’, #7,557 among all names counting both); 823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yona?
#6,128 among boys’ names, 2025
Yona rose from #9,534 in 2015 to #6,128 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.8 per million.
47 babies in 2024, the peak
Yona peaked in 2024, when 47 babies were given it (31 boys, #3,686 among boys’ names). The 33 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,536 | 15 | #6,128 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,236 | 31 | #3,686 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,128 | 26 | #4,210 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,962 | 22 | #4,692 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,956 | 21 | #4,769 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,906 | 19 | #5,031 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,705 | 16 | #5,799 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,783 | 20 | #4,910 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,909 | 27 | #3,983 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,277 | 17 | #5,548 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,806 | 8 | #9,534 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,972 | 17 | #5,473 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 16 | #5,645 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 28 | #3,798 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,495 | 18 | #5,192 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,917 | 18 | #5,239 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,399 | 14 | #6,418 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,394 | 12 | #7,166 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,600 | 16 | #5,651 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,388 | 10 | #7,974 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,406 | 14 | #5,862 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,738 | 11 | #6,953 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 10 | #7,226 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,619 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,477 | 11 | #6,428 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,990 | 6 | #10,315 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,897 | 5 | #11,564 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,531 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #6,085 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,763 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,767 | 5 | #10,133 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,408 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,470 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,702 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,479 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,213 | 5 | #7,353 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,381 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,952 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,316 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,600 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,791 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,549 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,379 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,065 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,775 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,558 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,530 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,380 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,427 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 823 Americans recorded as Yona, 41% are girls and 59% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yona, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Yona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Yona (578 women and girls, 446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 593 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
Where are babies named Yona born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,406 | 4.5× |
Where Yona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yona is most over-represented in New York: since 1924 it was given 4.5 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 boys’ 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 Yona 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,886 babies since 1880, Yona is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 124 babies (27%), again the second most given.
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 Yona
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 Yona and names like it
- Compare Yona and YonahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYona peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yona since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yona.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yona alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.