Yonna
Yonna was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 130 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yonna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,338, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1971, the peak
Yonna peaked in 1971, when 11 girls were given it, #5,128 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,338 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,113 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,991 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,524 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,143 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,454 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,317 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,971 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,792 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,951 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 11 | #5,128 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,612 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,188 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,610 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,003 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,095 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #7,001 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,947 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,723 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,614 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,487 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,679 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Yonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 48 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Yonna (258 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 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).
How common is the spelling Yonna?
Yonna is a less common spelling of Iona: SSA has recorded 130 Yonna and 12,261 Iona since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,795 babies since 1880, Yonna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 513 babies recorded by SSA was a Yonna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Yonna
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 Yonna and names like it
- Compare Yonna and IonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sYonna peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Yonna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Yonna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with YMost given first.