Yehia

#8,223 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Yehia has been given to 160 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #8,223 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Yehia, 2025

1 in 332,000

Yehia over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Yehia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,223
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yehia 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yehia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yehias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yehia was born before 2018 — so the typical Yehia is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.9% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Yehia 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
+4,072
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,336
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,368
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2023 (20)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,059
2023

Spellings of Yehia

Yehia is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 37.7% against Yehia's 0.49%.

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 Yehia is used

Across 1910–2025, Yehia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,537,827 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Yehia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yehia around the world

Where Yehia 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
    2016–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2008–2021
    #2,357
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yehia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,223
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,336
Best rank ever
#5,059
2023
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
160
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Yehia

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Sibling names for Yehia

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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