Yana comes from the Hebrew / Slavic tradition, meaning God is gracious, God's gift.
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How popular is Yana?
2024peak year
Today, Yana is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #2120), with only about 92 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 2024, 106 babies were given the name (ranked #1890 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2010s. Yana's usage has held roughly steady recently. In all, around 2,595 babies have been registered as Yana since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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