Iyana
#2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 322 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,285since 1976
Iyana over time
Rank among girls' names. Iyana has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,859 | 59 |
| 2024 | #2,053 | 94 |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 |
| 2021 | #2,366 | 76 |
| 2020 | #2,549 | 67 |
| 2019 | #2,272 | 80 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 |
| 2017 | #2,108 | 91 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 |
| 2015 | #1,972 | 101 |
| 2014 | #1,674 | 126 |
| 2013 | #1,210 | 198 |
| 2012 | #1,485 | 152 |
| 2011 | #1,288 | 184 |
| 2010 | #1,063 | 233 |
| 2009 | #1,154 | 219 |
| 2008 | #998 | 265 |
| 2007 | #968 | 277 |
| 2006 | #880 | 302 |
| 2005 | #877 | 289 |
| 2004 | #895 | 272 |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 |
| 2002 | #751 | 322 |
| 2001 | #837 | 273 |
| 2000 | #994 | 213 |
| 1999 | #1,126 | 176 |
| 1998 | #1,405 | 122 |
| 1997 | #1,718 | 90 |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Iyana! It came in at #7,296, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Iyana is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#540 · 1 in 2,489
- Virginia#674 · 1 in 3,638
- Georgia#763 · 1 in 3,943
- Tennessee#921 · 1 in 4,978
- Michigan#1,074 · 1 in 6,862
Best ever in a state: #199 in District of Columbia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #540 | 7 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Virginia | #674 | 10 | 1 in 3,638 |
| Georgia | #763 | 12 | 1 in 3,943 |
| Tennessee | #921 | 6 | 1 in 4,978 |
| Michigan | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 6,862 |
| North Carolina | #1,179 | 6 | 1 in 7,326 |
| Ohio | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,596 |
| New York | #1,283 | 11 | 1 in 8,388 |
| Florida | #1,296 | 9 | 1 in 8,847 |
| Illinois | #1,450 | 6 | 1 in 9,793 |
| Texas | #1,736 | 12 | 1 in 13,193 |
| California | #1,936 | 12 | 1 in 17,424 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Iyana
- 806 spots since 2024 (#2,053 → #2,859)
- 310 spots since 2020 (#2,549 → #2,859)
- 887 spots since 2015 (#1,972 → #2,859)
- Biggest jump: 157 spots in 2001 (#994 → #837)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 2003 (#751 → #990)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2002 at #751 (322 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2000–2008
- Highest: 1 in 5,580 girls born in 2002 were named Iyana (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.4% of all girls named Iyana (2,665) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 44 | #4,626 (1979) | #5,773 |
| 1980s | 116 | #4,478 (1984) | #6,161 |
| 1990s | 664 | #1,126 (1999) | #2,826 |
| 2000s | 2,665 | #751 (2002) | #934 |
| 2010s | 1,315 | #1,063 (2010) | #1,789 |
| 2020s | 481 | #2,006 (2022) | #2,332 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Iyana in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 11,586 of them was named Iyana, which outranked 92.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,477Louise153
- #1,477Nyasia153
- #1,477Yadira153
- #1,485Iyana152
- #1,485Alyanna152
- #1,485Jamiya152
- #1,485Kamora152
- #1,491Anita151
- #1,491Blanca151
- #1,491Denisse151
Tied with 5 names at #1,485; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.