Yasha
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 79.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 218since 1970
Yasha over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
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| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | — | |
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| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
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| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | — | |
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| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 | — | |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yasha! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Yasha is popular in 1977
No state had 5 or more girls named Yasha in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yasha
- 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1977 at #4,942 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 117,934 girls born in 1977 were named Yasha (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.3% of all girls named Yasha (53) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 38 | #4,942 (1977) | #7,059 |
| 1980s | 53 | #5,544 (1980) | #9,506 |
| 1990s | 47 | #8,501 (1990) | #10,074 |
| 2000s | 48 | #8,837 (2002) | #12,119 |
| 2010s | 18 | #13,448 (2010) | #14,814 |
| 2020s | 14 | #11,122 (2024) | #12,165 |
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.
Yasha in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 117,934 of them was named Yasha, which outranked 56.4% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,652Wynona14
- #4,652Yazmin14
- #4,652Zarinah14
- #4,942Yasha13
- #4,942Acacia13
- #4,942Afi13
- #4,942Aishah13
- #5,213Abril12
- #5,213Ainsley12
- #5,213Albertina12
Tied with 270 names at #4,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.