How Many People Are Named Yana?

2,620

people named Yana are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 130,452 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,670 babies named Yana in Social Security records from 1955 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,658

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,175

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Peak Year

2024

106 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian
Pronunciation: YA-nə (Russian)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian form of JANA (1).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Yana in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Yana alive today is about 18 years old, and 83% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 23 in 2025.

Under 30 2,173
82.9%
30 to 59 358
13.7%
60 and over 89
3.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Yana first appears in the records in 1955 and was given most often in 2024, to 106 babies. In 2025, 75 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1955 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Yana has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,758, in 1956. In 2025 it ranked #2,409.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,409
Best rank#1,758 (1956)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,218 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Yana alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Yana were born in California than in any other state: about 360 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yana was given 7.6 times as often in Washington, 2.5 times in New York and 2.4 times in California.

California 360
New York 174
Washington 174
Texas 80
Florida 62
Illinois 57
New Jersey 54
Pennsylvania 40
Ohio 22
Oregon 21
Georgia 16
North Carolina 11
Virginia 10
Maryland 6
Indiana 5

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