Iyannah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 15 babies a year in the US.
Iyannah by the numbers
Iyannah was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 34 babies in 2009, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Iyannah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Iyannah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Iyannagod is gracious; a modern respelling of Ioanna or Ivanna139 in the US (2017)
- Ivannahgod is gracious; a form of Ivana6 in the US (2017)
- Iyanah9 in the US (2017)
- Iyaanah3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ivannagod is gracious; feminine form of John575 in the US (2017)
- Ivyannaivy plant; a form of Ivy40 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Iyannah
Names that are said the same way as Iyannah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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