Yona is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Yuna, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,429 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,429 in 1924; #6,537 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Yona in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,537 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #4,429.
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Yona: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,429 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 18 (2025).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Yona, making it the 6,537th most common girls’ name of the year, up 703 places from #7,240 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 16 girls named Yona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,429, reached in 1924. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18, in 2025. For comparison, it was #11,811 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Yona, making it the 6,131st most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,443 places from #3,688 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 31 boys named Yona in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,688, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #9,540 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yona in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 823 US babies have been given the name, 41% of them girls and 59% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 263 babies named Yona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US girls were named Yona; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yuna (3,063 babies since 1880), Yoana (1,556 babies since 1880) and Yohana (1,417 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) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yona 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 | 18 | #6,537 | 15 | #6,131 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,240 | 31 | #3,688 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,133 | 26 | #4,214 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,967 | 22 | #4,696 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,961 | 21 | #4,773 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,910 | 19 | #5,035 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,710 | 16 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,788 | 20 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,913 | 27 | #3,987 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,282 | 17 | #5,552 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,811 | 8 | #9,540 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,974 | 17 | #5,477 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,649 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,801 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,503 | 18 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,924 | 18 | #5,242 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,405 | 14 | #6,422 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,400 | 12 | #7,171 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,604 | 16 | #5,654 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,393 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,413 | 14 | #5,868 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,744 | 11 | #6,959 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,233 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,626 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,484 | 11 | #6,435 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,998 | 6 | #10,323 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,906 | 5 | #11,573 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,539 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,091 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,768 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,773 | 5 | #10,139 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,416 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,477 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,708 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,484 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,215 | 5 | #7,355 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,383 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,955 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,318 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,602 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,793 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,551 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,381 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,066 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,776 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,559 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,531 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,381 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,429 | — | — |
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).