Yuna
Yuna was given to 271 girls in 2025, #952 among girls’ names; 3,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,040 Americans named Yuna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yuna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yuna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yuna is “a female given name from Korean.”
Also “a female given name from Japanese.”
From Korean and Japanese.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yuna?
#952 among girls’ names, 2025
Yuna rose from #1,742 in 2015 to #952 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.17 per 1,000.
271 babies in 2025, the peak
Yuna peaked in 2025, when 271 girls were given it, #952 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 231 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | #952 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 231 | #1,076 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 198 | #1,208 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 223 | #1,113 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 204 | #1,195 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 152 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,572 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,742 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,691 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,019 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,566 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,087 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,712 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,357 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 63 | #2,854 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,165 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,313 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,859 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,993 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,661 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,274 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,058 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,693 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,519 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,538 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,041 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,381 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,053 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yuna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yuna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yuna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yuna, and how old are they?
3,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,063 Americans ever recorded as Yuna. The median Yuna alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,293 people named Yuna (2,276 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,809 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 62 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 767 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,210 |
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 Yuna born?
The states with the most babies named Yuna are California, Texas and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 70 | #486 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,152 | 0.5× |
| New York | 15 | #1,027 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #571 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,168 | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #446 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 11 | #702 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,072 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #680 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,042 | 1.7× |
Where Yuna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yuna is most over-represented in California: since 1983 it was given 2.0 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 Yuna 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 9,270 babies since 1880, Yuna is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 421 babies (64%), again the 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 Yuna
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 Yuna and names like it
- Compare Yuna and YanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYuna peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yuna since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yuna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yuna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.