Meaning not yet researched.
Yana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,759 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,759 in 1956; #2,409 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,409 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #1,759.
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Yana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,759 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 106 (2024).
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Yana, making it the 2,409th most common girls’ name of the year, down 516 places from #1,893 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 106 girls named Yana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,759, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 106, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,983 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yana in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 7 babies. In all, 2,670 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 869 babies named Yana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 893 US girls were named Yana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yana ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,238 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880) and Joanna (112,067 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yanna, Yanai and Yanay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yanna (608), Yanai (160), Yanay (60), Yanae (50), Yahna (40), Yannai (25), Yaana (18), Yanahi (10), Yanah (9), Yanaya (6), Yannah (5).
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 Yana 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,238 | #1,291 |
| New York | 10 | #1,412 | #1,608 |
| California | 9 | #2,271 | #1,481 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 2014 | 90 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,181 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,019 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,410 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,947 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,309 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,764 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,501 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,975 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,867 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,738 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,680 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,294 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,817 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,567 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,905 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,453 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,582 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,891 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,613 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,144 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,518 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,001 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,647 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,573 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,315 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,195 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,201 | — | — |
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).