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Yahia

#2,640 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yahya

Yahia has been given to 561 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,640 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Yahia, 2025

1 in 66,300

Yahia over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yahia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yahya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yahia means

Yahia is a alternate transcription of Yahya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yahia → Yahya → يَحْيَى. The family’s proposed meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements Yōḥānān.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yahya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 561 boys were recorded with the name Yahia between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,640 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,687 in 2020 to #2,640 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,509 in 2015 to #2,640 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.

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How common is Yahia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,640
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yahia 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yahia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yahias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yahia was born before 2017 — so the typical Yahia is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
561
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Yahia 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
+516
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,047
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+869
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (50)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,640
2025

Spellings of Yahia

Yahia is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 18.9% against Yahia's 0.85%.

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.

Where Yahia is used

Across 1910–2025, Yahia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 392,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yahia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yahia around the world

Where Yahia 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
    1999–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #657
    in 2022
  • France
    1950–2025
    #687
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yahia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,640
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,047
Best rank ever
#2,640
2025
Peak year
2025
50 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
561
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Yahia

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

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Sibling names for Yahia

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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