girls:
1.1k births since 1980
#4651 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1980
#6674 (14th percentile)
The name Ianna is the #6,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,065 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 13.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,651 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 1,065 births since 1980.
Ianna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for girls in 1980). Birth data for Ianna is available in 39 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ianna reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #886) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 30 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ianna ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 50.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ianna".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Ianna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.4% confident that Ianna is pronounced as ee-A-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-a-nuh, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IY0 AE1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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