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Yaffa

#5,547 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Yafa

Yaffa has been given to 463 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #5,547 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Yaffa, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaffa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaffa means

Yaffa is a alternate transcription of Yafa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yaffa → Yafa. The family’s meaning is “beautiful, pleasant”, recorded in the naming reference for Yafa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yafa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 463 girls were recorded with the name Yaffa between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,547 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,925 in 2020 to #5,547 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,911 in 2015 to #5,547 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 Yaffa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,547
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaffa 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaffa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaffas were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
463
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Yaffa 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
+4,680
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,378
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,364
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (23)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,547
2025

Spellings of Yaffa

Yaffa is not the most common spelling — Yara is, with 35.8% against Yaffa's 2.2%.

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 Yaffa is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaffa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 94,134 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Yaffa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaffa around the world

Where Yaffa 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.

  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,085
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yaffa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,547
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,378
Best rank ever
#5,547
2025
Peak year
2025
23 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
463
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Yaffa

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

YafaEffaSaffaLatiffa

Sibling names for Yaffa

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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