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Yanna

#7,117 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Yanna has been given to 608 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,117 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Yanna, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yanna: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yanna means

Yanna has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Yanna

A separate documented entry treats Yanna as a alternate transcription of Gianna. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Yanna as a feminine form of Yann. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 608 girls were recorded with the name Yanna between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,565 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,836 in 2020 to #7,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,990 in 2015 to #7,117 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 Yanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,117
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yanna 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanna was born before 2007 — so the typical Yanna is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
608
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (188).

Is Yanna 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
+1,299
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,281
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+873
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.5%
Peak was 2009 (33)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,565
2009

Spellings of Yanna

Yanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 17.8% against Yanna'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 Yanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Yanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,426,811 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 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. Yanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yanna around the world

Where Yanna 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #4,210
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1977–2008
    #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.

Yanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,281
Best rank ever
#4,565
2009
Peak year
2009
33 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
608
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Yanna

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

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Sibling names for Yanna

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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