Yana is a Slavic form of Jana, the feminine of John, carrying the ancient meaning God is gracious. Loved across Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine, it has a clean, bright sound.
Yana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yana reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.