Iyana is a female first name.
Iyana is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,751 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,750 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Iyana.
Iyana is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Iyana cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #717 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2002. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Iyana, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Iyana seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Iyana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
96 babies were named Iyana in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,544,082 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Iyana ranked 1,814 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Iyana, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to women and girls named Iyana. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Iyana living in one state or another. If your name is Iyana and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Virginia, which has the most people named Iyana relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,282 women and girls their names before you hear Iyana as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Iyana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Iyana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Iyana, you can simply say:
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Iyana
Iyana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Iyana sounds like this:
