Yanna is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Yanna in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Yanna in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Yanna by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Yanna ranks at #6,594. That means there are 6,593 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yanna.
In fact, the name Yanna did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Yanna seemed to be more popular than ever in 2009. Although the name never ranked higher than #4,097, 33 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Yanna, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yanna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Yanna a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #5,250 - with a total of 20 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Meeting a woman or girl named Yanna is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Yanna can be found in only two: California and Florida. No other state currently has residents named Yanna. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Yanna living in one state or another (if your name is Yanna and you live outside of California or Florida, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Yanna is in Florida, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Florida, only 0.00010% of all female residents are named Yanna – that’s just one in 982,047! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 10 women with that name. So, if your name is Yanna, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Yanna 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.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yanna 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 Yanna, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yanna
Yanna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
N
N
A
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.
Y
A
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A
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. Yanna sounds like this:
