Meaning not yet researched.
Iyana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #751 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #751 in 2002; #2,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Iyana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,872 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #751.
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Iyana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #751 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 322 (2002).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Iyana, making it the 2,872nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 814 places from #2,058 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 94 girls named Iyana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #751, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 322. For comparison, it was #1,976 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iyana in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 7 babies. In all, 5,285 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,665 babies named Iyana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 802 US girls were named Iyana; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Iyana ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,491 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ina (34,139 babies since 1880), Iona (12,261 babies since 1880), Iyanna (5,403 babies since 1880) and Inaya (3,453 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Iyana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,491 | #1,157 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,287 | #1,548 |
| California | 7 | #2,601 | #2,384 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,077 | #2,456 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 2013 | 198 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2012 | 152 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 2011 | 184 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 2010 | 233 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 2009 | 219 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 2008 | 265 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2007 | 277 | #970 | — | — |
| 2006 | 302 | #880 | — | — |
| 2005 | 289 | #879 | — | — |
| 2004 | 272 | #895 | — | — |
| 2003 | 233 | #992 | — | — |
| 2002 | 322 | #751 | — | — |
| 2001 | 273 | #838 | — | — |
| 2000 | 213 | #994 | — | — |
| 1999 | 176 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,763 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,656 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,133 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,414 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,480 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,675 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,918 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,030 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,503 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,656 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,313 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,586 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).