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Yafa

#5,393 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful, pleasant

Yafa has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #5,393 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Yafa, 2025

1 in 138,000

Yafa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yafa: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, pleasant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yafa means

Yafa means “beautiful, pleasant”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Yafa between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,768 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,513 in 2020 to #5,393 in 2025.

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.

How common is Yafa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,393
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yafa 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 2025 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yafa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yafas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yafa was born before 2023 — so the typical Yafa is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
135
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Choose a decade

2020s — 76.3% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Yafa 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
−625
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,120
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
82.8%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,768
2024

Spellings of Yafa

Yafa is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 19.8% against Yafa's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yafa is used

Across 1910–2025, Yafa was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,839,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Yafa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yafa around the world

Where Yafa 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
    2024–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #2,745
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yafa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,393
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,120
Best rank ever
#4,768
2024
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Yafa

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

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Sibling names for Yafa

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

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