Yoanna is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Yoanna in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Yoanna in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Yoanna by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Yoanna ranks at #8,028. That means there are 8,027 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 Yoanna.
In fact, the name Yoanna 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), Yoanna seemed to be more popular than ever in 2001. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,524, 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 Yoanna, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yoanna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Yoanna a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #9,013 - with a total of 9 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.
The first name Yoanna is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 187 Americans in total bear this name. And these 187 women are located in only three states: California, Illinois and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Yoanna and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Yoanna in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 104,286 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Yoanna.
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 six letters, the name Yoanna is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Yoanna 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 Yoanna, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Orange
Apple
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yoanna
Yoanna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
O
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
O
A
N
N
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. Yoanna sounds like this:
