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Yocheved

#2,996 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Jochebed

Yocheved has been given to 2,410 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #2,996 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Yocheved, 2025

1 in 59,200

Yocheved over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yocheved: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jochebed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yocheved means

Yocheved is a form of Jochebed.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yocheved → Jochebed. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is glory + to be glorious”, recorded in the naming reference for Jochebed.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jochebed.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,410 girls were recorded with the name Yocheved between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,144 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,240 in 2020 to #2,996 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,430 in 2015 to #2,996 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 Yocheved?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,996
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yocheved sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yocheved. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yocheveds were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,410
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (691).

Is Yocheved 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
−610
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−756
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−566
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.9%
Peak was 2012 (89)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,144
2012

Where Yocheved is used

Across 1910–2025, Yocheved was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 17,762 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Yocheved has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yocheved around the world

Where Yocheved 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
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

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.

Notable people named Yocheved

People whose public names include Yocheved, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yocheved by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,996
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 756
Best rank ever
#2,144
2012
Peak year
2012
89 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,410
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Yocheved

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

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Names with a curve like Yocheved

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yocheved, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Yocheved

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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