Yaffa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YAH-fah
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Yaffa is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Yaffa mean?
Hebrew: from yafa 'beautiful'
“beautiful”
Is Yaffa a girl's or a boy's name?
Yaffa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yaffa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Yaffa, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 1959.
2025 had the most girls named Yaffa of any year since it first appeared, in 1959.
Half of all the girls named Yaffa in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yaffa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,407 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,886 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,578 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,617 |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,244 |
Names like Yaffa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zaira Hadassah Zamira Zainab Salma Aaliyah Hafsa Salem Rahma Hiba Safiya
Names related to Yaffa
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
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, “Yaffa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaffa, updated 20 October 2026.