In 2025, 9 US girls were named Iyonna, making it the 10,432nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,052 places from #7,380 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 15 girls named Iyonna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,882, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #3,153 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iyonna in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 9 babies. In all, 1,770 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 832 babies named Iyonna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 255 US girls were named Iyonna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Iona (12,261 babies since 1880), Iyanna (5,403 babies since 1880) and Iyana (5,285 babies since 1880).