Yenta is a Yiddish name from the Italian gentile (noble, refined) — meaning "noble lady." The Yiddish-speaking world used it widely until the character Yente in Fiddler on the Roof (1964) shifted the English meaning to "matchmaker" or "gossip."
Yenta the Matchmaker is the iconic character from Fiddler on the Roof.
Yenta 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yenta reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.