Yafa
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 135since 2009
Yafa over time
Rank among girls' names. Yafa has never cracked the top 4,000 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 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
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| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
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| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
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| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yafa! It came in at #17,294, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2009–2013, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Yafa is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,965 · 1 in 27,228
Best ever in a state: #1,405 in Illinois, 2025.
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| Texas | #2,965 | 6 | 1 in 27,228 |
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See more about Yafa
- 569 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #5,238)
- 3,715 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #5,238)
- Debuted 2009
- Peaked 2024 at #4,669 (29 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 55,869 girls born in 2024 were named Yafa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 76.3% of all girls named Yafa (103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | #17,294 (2009) | #17,294 |
| 2010s | 27 | #10,955 (2014) | #13,220 |
| 2020s | 103 | #4,669 (2024) | #7,386 |
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.
Yafa in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 55,869 of them was named Yafa, which outranked 73.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,560Zianna30
- #4,560Ziggy30
- #4,560Zury30
- #4,669Yafa29
- #4,669Aalani29
- #4,669Adia29
- #4,669Alahna29
- #4,772Aeryn28
- #4,772Aina28
- #4,772Alysia28
Tied with 102 names at #4,669; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.