Yaffa is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Shayna, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yaffa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,548 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yaffa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,548 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yaffa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,548 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 23 (2025).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Yaffa, making it the 5,548th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,684 places from #10,232 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 10 girls named Yaffa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,548, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #8,916 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaffa in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 463 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 108 babies named Yaffa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US girls were named Yaffa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Shayna (16,272 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).
No nicknames listed for Yaffa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,232 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,143 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,648 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,009 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,930 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,408 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,590 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,754 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,916 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,921 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,968 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,396 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,114 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,881 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,359 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,447 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,789 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,580 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,450 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,863 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,289 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,328 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,720 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,646 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,397 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,680 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,768 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,390 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,532 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,107 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,172 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,333 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,375 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,290 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,511 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,469 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,394 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,037 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,222 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,119 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,436 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,335 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,270 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,595 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,072 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,271 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,193 | — | — |
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).