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Yoan

#3,653 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Yoan has been given to 526 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,653 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Yoan, 2025

1 in 107,000

Yoan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yoan means

Yoan has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Yoan

A separate documented entry treats Yoan as a form of Johann. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Yoan as a form of John. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 526 boys were recorded with the name Yoan between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,521 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,221 in 2020 to #3,653 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,306 in 2015 to #3,653 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 Yoan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,653
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoan 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoan was born before 2012 — so the typical Yoan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
526
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2010s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Yoan 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
−132
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,568
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,653
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.9%
Peak was 2024 (33)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,521
2024

Spellings of Yoan

Yoan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 48.0% against Yoan's <0.01%.

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 Yoan is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,143,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Yoan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yoan around the world

Where Yoan 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
    2008–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #1,219
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yoan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,653
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,568
Best rank ever
#3,521
2024
Peak year
2024
33 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
526
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Yoan

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

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Sibling names for Yoan

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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