Yehya
#11,940 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yehya has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #11,940 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Yehya, 2025
1 in 553,000
Yehya over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yehya?
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
- #11,940
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yehya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yehya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yehyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yehya was born before 2014 — so the typical Yehya is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 94
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Yehya 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
- −2,095
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,035
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,348
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.86×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.0%
- Peak was 2016 (8)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Yehya
Yehya is not the most common spelling — Yehuda is, with 41.9% against Yehya's 0.50%.
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.
Yehya around the world
Where Yehya 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
- Canada2014–2014#2,374in 2014
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.
Yehya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yehya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yehya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.