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Johanan

#11,283 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yoḥanan

Johanan has been given to 246 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #11,283 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Johanan, 2025

1 in 553,000

Johanan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johanan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yoḥanan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Johanan means

Johanan is a form of Yoḥanan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Johanan is used in Biblical.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒoʊ.ˈhæn.ən/ for Johanan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yoḥanan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 246 boys were recorded with the name Johanan between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,826 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,098 in 2020 to #11,283 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,345 in 2015 to #11,283 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Johanan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,283
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johanan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johanan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johanans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johanan was born before 2008 — so the typical Johanan is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
246
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Choose a decade

2000s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Johanan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,185
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+62
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2006 (14)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,826
1999

Spellings of Johanan

Johanan is not the most common spelling — Johan is, with 54.9% against Johanan's 0.92%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Johanan around the world

Where Johanan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    1985–1985
    #2,970
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Johanan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,283
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,185
Best rank ever
#5,826
1999
Peak year
2006
14 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
246
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Johanan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Johanan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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