Yaya

Where Yaya comes from

The male name is ultimately from Arabic يَحْيَى (yaḥyā); likely through a West African language.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yaya
  • Vowel-ended
Yaya through the years
  1. 1999
    First appearance
    #9,912 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2021
    Peak, #8,825
    8 babies named Yaya, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.