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Yoana

#8,339 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of John

Yoana has been given to 1,556 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #8,339 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Yoana, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yoana means

Yoana is a feminine form of John.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yoana → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,556 girls were recorded with the name Yoana between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,882 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,839 in 2020 to #8,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,023 in 2015 to #8,339 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 Yoana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,339
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoana 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoana was born before 2002 — so the typical Yoana is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,556
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (608).

Is Yoana 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
−3,679
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,500
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,316
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.0%
Peak was 2001 (93)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,882
2001

Spellings of Yoana

Yoana is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 26.9% against Yoana's 0.05%.

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 Yoana is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 78,429 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Yoana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yoana around the world

Where Yoana 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
    2007–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2023
    #4,498
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Yoana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,500
Best rank ever
#1,882
2001
Peak year
2001
93 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,556
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Yoana

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

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Sibling names for Yoana

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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