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Yana

#2,409 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Yana has been given to 2,670 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #2,409 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Yana, 2025

1 in 44,200

Yana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin

Slavic languages

What Yana means

Yana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yana is used in English. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Yana is pronounced /ˈjɑː.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,670 girls were recorded with the name Yana between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,758 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,062 in 2020 to #2,409 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,983 in 2015 to #2,409 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,409
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yana 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yana was born before 2010 — so the typical Yana is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,670
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2010s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (869).

Is Yana 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
−516
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−347
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−426
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.8%
Peak was 2024 (106)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,758
1956

Spellings of Yana

Yana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.6% against Yana's 0.04%.

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 Yana is used

Across 2016–2025, Yana was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 19,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 25,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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.

Yana around the world

Where Yana 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
    1996–2025
    #834
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1946–2025
    #1,665
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #870
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Yana

People whose public names include Yana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Yana. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanaJaneJeanIvanaJonnaJuanaIvankaIvannaJeanneJoannaGiovannaSiân

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Yana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,409
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 347
Best rank ever
#1,758
1956
Peak year
2024
106 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,670
Count in 2025
75

Names similar to Yana

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

YanetNanaZanaYaniraRanaSanaYaneliYanelyQianaCianaKeanaTyanaYaniRianaTwanaKyanaYannaKanaYanethTanaIanaYoanaManaLuana

Names with a curve like Yana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmeerahMarliShaindyKaliahAvrilRaizyJannahIllianaTahliaLovelyAislynnMaryn

Sibling names for Yana

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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