Yovana
Yovana was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,877 among girls’ names; 480 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yovana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yovana?
#14,877 among girls’ names, 2025
Yovana rose from #16,339 in 2015 to #14,877 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
61 babies in 2001, the peak
Yovana peaked in 2001, when 61 girls were given it, #2,535 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,877 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,743 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,782 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,339 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,464 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,445 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,689 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,239 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,361 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,732 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #17,572 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,982 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,990 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,066 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,045 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,973 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,535 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,304 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,374 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,705 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,830 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,729 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,499 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,307 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,250 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,472 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,257 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,173 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,663 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,235 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #9,008 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,225 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,397 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,086 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,745 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,740 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,642 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,148 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,603 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yovana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yovana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yovana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yovana, and how old are they?
An estimated 471 Americans named Yovana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 22 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 801 people named Yovana (797 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,391 babies since 1880, Yovana is the most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 26 babies (23%), the third 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 Yovana
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 Yovana and names like it
- Compare Yovana and YvannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYovana peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yovana since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Yovana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yovana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.