girl's name

Yoana

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 1,870

Yoana is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2001, when 93 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 255,037 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1979.

Yoana over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Yoana by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 5
1980s 180
1990s 398
2000s 608
2010s 235
2020s (to 2025) 130

How popular is Yoana?

In 2025, Yoana was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Yoana is used

Canada #2,144 10 in 2024
England & Wales #2,335 12 in 2025
France #6,127 5 in 2023
United States #8,004 13 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Yoana

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Yoana also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Yoana over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Yoana

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Yoana — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Yoana

How popular is the name Yoana?

In 2025, Yoana was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Yoana a girl's or a boy's name?

Yoana is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Yoana most popular?

Yoana peaked in 2001, when 93 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Yoana a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Yoana currently ranks #2,144 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.