girls:
5.1k births since 1976
#2359 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1976
#3811 (51st percentile)
The name Iyana is the #3,811 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,129 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 50.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,359 (58.7% percentile) for all time with 5,129 births since 1976.
Iyana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976).
For girls, Iyana reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 33.9% percentile (ranked #591) with 163 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 163 births per million (ranked 33.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Iyana ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 30.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iyana".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Iyana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Iyana is pronounced as ee-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-UH-nuh, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IY0 AA1 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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