Iyanah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eye-AH-na
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Iyanah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Iyanah come from?
Modern: spelling of Iyanna; US variant of Ayana or Ayanna
Meaning borrowed from Iyanna.
Is Iyanah a girl's or a boy's name?
Iyanah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Iyanah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Iyanah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Iyanah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Iyanah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 469 girls in the US were given Iyanah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #623, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Iyanah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,932 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,815 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,676 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,011 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,049 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,853 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,938 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,902 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,169 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
Names like Iyanah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Hadassah, Jaliyah, Zaliyah, Aziyah, Kamiyah, Zariah, Naziyah, Alaiyah, Taliyah
Other spellings of Iyanah
Names related to Iyanah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Iyanah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iyanah, updated 20 October 2026.