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Yanai

#10,882 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Yanna

Yanai has been given to 160 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #10,882 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Yanai, 2025

1 in 368,000

Yanai over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yanai over time

In 2025, Yanai went to 47% girls and 53% boys.

19862025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yanai: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yanai means

Yanai is a form of Yanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Yanai is a form of Yanna. Yanna has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yanna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 girls were recorded with the name Yanai between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,737 in 1986.

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Yanai between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,221 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,964 in 2020 to #8,221 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 Yanai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,882
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yanai 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yanais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanai was born before 2011 — so the typical Yanai is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
108
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2020s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Yanai 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
+193
Places climbed
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
69.2%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,737
1986

Spellings of Yanai

Yanai is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 26.1% against Yanai'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 Yanai is used

Across 1910–2025, Yanai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Yanai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yanai around the world

Where Yanai 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2023–2025
    #4,940
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yanai by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,882
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,737
1986
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,743
Best rank ever
#8,221
2025
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Yanai

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

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Sibling names for Yanai

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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