Yona
- #6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Given to boys 58.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 31 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 482since 1982
Yona over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #4,855 | 19 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | — | #5,404 | 16 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,714 | 28 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
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| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #6,385 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1982
The first year at least five boys were named Yona! It came in at #6,385, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yona is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,297 | 8 | 1 in 10,553 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,006 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #5,861)
- 2,883 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2024 at #3,605 (31 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 55,577
- Highest: 1 in 55,577 boys born in 2024 were named Yona (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 38.4% of all boys named Yona (185) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16 | #5,926 (1986) | #6,527 |
| 1990s | 34 | #5,642 (1997) | #7,704 |
| 2000s | 113 | #5,434 (2007) | #6,671 |
| 2010s | 185 | #3,714 (2012) | #5,265 |
| 2020s | 134 | #3,605 (2024) | #4,605 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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