girls:
1.5k births since 1979
#4231 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1979
#6232 (19th percentile)
The name Yoana is the #6,232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,513 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 19.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,231 (26.0% percentile) for all time with 1,513 births since 1979.
Yoana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979).
For girls, Yoana reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #810) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 47 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yoana ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 20.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yoana".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Yoana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Yoana is pronounced as yoh-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YOH-uh-nuh, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Y OW0 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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