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Yohan

#1,259 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Johann

Yohan has been given to 1,865 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,259 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Yohan, 2025

1 in 21,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yohan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Johann

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yohan means

Yohan is a form of Johann.

Origin, language, and formation

Yohan is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johann and John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,865 boys were recorded with the name Yohan between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,164 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,021 in 2020 to #1,259 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,110 in 2015 to #1,259 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yohan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,000
158 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,259
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,545 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yohan 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,545 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yohan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yohans were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,865
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (730).

Is Yohan 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
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+762
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+851
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 2024 (180)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,164
2024

Spellings of Yohan

Yohan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 79.6% against Yohan's 0.03%.

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 Yohan is used

Across 2016–2025, Yohan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 18,173 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 11,111
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 11,111
  4. 4California1 in 12,500
  5. 5Georgia1 in 14,286
  6. 6Maryland1 in 16,667
  7. 7New York1 in 16,667
  8. 8Illinois1 in 20,000

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.

Yohan around the world

Where Yohan 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
    2003–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1962–2025
    #627
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #585
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yohan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,259
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 762
Best rank ever
#1,164
2024
Peak year
2024
180 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,865
Count in 2025
158

Names similar to Yohan

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

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Sibling names for Yohan

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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