Yoana

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Dios es bondadoso

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʝoana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yoana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 19K
  • COColombia≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,500 people, est.

Sources
151 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Dios es bondadoso

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yoana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Yoana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2K339Yoana3
AR Argentina—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 19K4Yoana44
CO Colombia#882≈2,200 est.≈1 in 23K2Yoana52
US United States—2,0091 in 166K2KYoana151
ES Spain#9041,7941 in 28K1.8KYoana88
VE Venezuela—1,0601 in 27K1.1KYoana21
UY Uruguay#3675111 in 6.6K511Yoana23

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the bg-nsi-newborns register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yoana is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Romania, Germany

    Languages: Bulgarian, English, German

    Also written Ioana, Йоана, Иоана, Joana, 'Joana

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Ýôanã, Yoănă

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Yoana,Hi Yoana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Yoana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#7,554
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,876
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#957
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.1K#1,485
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—511—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—488—
BG BulgariaNSI — newborn names (press release)2008467#7
BG BulgariaNSI — newborn names (press release)2016367#9
BG BulgariaNSI — newborn names (press release)2018339#10
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200193—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200375—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199567—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yoana mean, and where does it come from?
Dios es bondadoso Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
In which country does Yoana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Yoana in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoana.
How common is the name Yoana?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,009 people named Yoana in 2020, about 1 in 166 thousand residents.
How common is Yoana compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Yoana is the 367th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Yoana?
A machine transcription gives /ʝoana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Yoana a male or female name?
Yoana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Yoana?
In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Joan are forms of the same name in other languages.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yoana” — the 367th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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