Yoanna

girls:

658 births since 1980

#5058 (11th percentile)

overall:

658 births since 1980

#7081 (8th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Yoanna is the #7,081 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 658 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,058 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 658 births since 1980.

Yoanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for girls in 1980). Birth data for Yoanna is available in 41 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, Yoanna reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #906) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yoanna ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 25.6% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yoanna".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
658
Peak Births
37
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
3.3%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#906
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Yoanna

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yoanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 40.0% confident that Yoanna is pronounced as yoh-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yoh-A-nuh, at 25.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.

yoh-AH-nuh (3 syllables)
40.0% confidence
Y OW0 AA1 N AH0
yoh-A-nuh (3 syllables)
25.7% confidence
Y OW0 AE1 N AH0
yoh-UH-nuh (3 syllables)
17.1% confidence
Y OW0 AH1 N AH0
YOH-a-nuh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
Y OW1 AE0 N AH0
YOH-AH-nuh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
Y OW1 AA1 N AH0
YOH-ah-nuh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
Y OW1 AA0 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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