girls:
2.5k births since 1955
#3474 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1955
#5349 (31st percentile)
The name Yana is the #5,349 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,488 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 30.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,474 (39.2% percentile) for all time with 2,488 births since 1955.
Yana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (first recorded for girls in 1955). Birth data for Yana is available in 68 out of the 69 years between 1955 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, Yana reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 10.5% percentile (ranked #848) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yana is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #848 (10.5% percentile) with 59 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yana".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Yana is pronounced as YAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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