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Yafa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,770 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,770 in 2024; #5,394 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yafa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,394 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #4,770.
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Yafa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,770 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 29 (2024).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Yafa, making it the 5,394th most common girls’ name of the year, down 624 places from #4,770 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 29 girls named Yafa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,770, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yafa in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 5 babies. In all, 135 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 103 babies named Yafa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 121 US girls were named Yafa; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).