Yaa

Girls' name

Born on Thursday

Yaa has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Yaa, 2024

1 in 478,000

Yaa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaa: meaning, origin, and history

Born on Thursday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaa means

Yaa means “born on Thursday”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yaa is used in Akan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 269 girls were recorded with the name Yaa between 1978 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2005; its best national rank was #8,301 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Yaa?

Yaa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yaa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaa was born before 2005 — so the typical Yaa is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 68.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 269; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Yaa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (13)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,301; 1985

Where Yaa is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yaa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaa around the world

Where Yaa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1997–2025
#3,035
in 2025
South Australia
2010–2010
#801
in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yaa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,301; 1985
Peak year: 2005; 13 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 269
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yaa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Yaara Aryaa Hayaa Ayaa Nanayaa Yaana Alyaa Myaa Ameyaa Diyaa Yaalini Alayaa Yaasmeen Anayaa Siyaa Rayaa Ziyaa Saniyaa Ariyaa Yaasmiyn Janiyaa Ananyaa Aaliyaa

Sibling names for Yaa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jaci Pilar Anisa Jamya Anjali Anneliese Annalisa Abigayle

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Kadin Lavon Tye

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