Yana
Yana reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 1,884, and has been recorded 2,670 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,387th. About 2,600 Yanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yana
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,670
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,884th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,387th
- First recorded
- 1955
How old the living Yanas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,670 babies given the name since 1955, about 2,600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Slavic languages
Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from feminine form of Ioannes (=John).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yanas
- Yana Klochkova (born 1982)Ukrainian swimmer
- Yana Zinkevych (born 1995)Ukrainian medic volunteer
- Yana Egorian (born 1993)Russian Saber fencer
- Yana Gupta (born 1979)Czech model and actress
- Yana Shemyakina (born 1986)Ukrainian fencer
- Yana Kudryavtseva (born 1997)Russian rhythmic gymnast, World Champion, Olympic silver medalist
- Yana Uskova (born 1985)handball player
- Yana Belomoyna (born 1992)Ukrainian cyclist
People named Yana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yana is most concentrated in Washington (9.8×), California (3.3×), Oregon (2.1×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Yana peaked:
Yana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Yana | 2,311 | 58th |
| France girls | Yana | 645 | 1,179th |
| England and Wales girls | Yana | 495 | 834th |
| Switzerland girls | Yana | 202 | 449th |
| Poland girls | Yana | 193 birth registrations | 209th |
| Ireland girls | Yana | 23 | 443rd |
| Scotland girls | Yana | 10 | 680th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Yana: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Yana | 150 | 0.012% | 424th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Yana | 49 | 0.011% | 239th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Yana | 3 | 0.005% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Yana is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 43 of them.
Yana: rank by region
In 2024, Yana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Yana | 654 | 7 |
In 2025, Yana was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Yana | 190 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Yana | 217 | 5 |
| Pomorskie | Yana | 209 | 2 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Yana appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (334th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Yana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Yana | 83 | 87 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Yana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,497 women called Yana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Yana | 240 | 0.233 | 441 |
| Melilla | Yana | 7 | 0.162 | 672 |
| Girona | Yana | 64 | 0.155 | 582 |
| Málaga | Yana | 136 | 0.148 | 548 |
| Valencia/València | Yana | 150 | 0.106 | 656 |
| Lleida | Yana | 21 | 0.094 | 836 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Yana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.