In 2025, 13 US girls were named Yoana, making it the 8,341st most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,679 places from #4,662 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 30 girls named Yoana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,886, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #6,025 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yoana in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 1,556 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 608 babies named Yoana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 206 US girls were named Yoana; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yuna (3,063 babies since 1880) and Yohana (1,417 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yohanna and Yoonah are summarised on this page.