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Yana vs Yanely

American parents have registered 2,670 Yanas since 1880, against 1,706 Yanelys. Yana is still ahead, with 75 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yana against Yanely, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yana Yanely

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 70 years in which either name was published, Yana for 55 years and Yanely for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Yana Yanely
Total US births 2,6701,706
Most in one year 10685
Babies in 2025 7572
Estimated living today 2,6001,700
Median age today 1516
Peak year 20242008
Best rank 1,884th girls2,295th girls
Rank in 2025 2,387th2,458th
First recorded 19551986
Girls / boys 2,670 / 01,706 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yana and Yanely.