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Yohana

#3,572 in 2025Girls' name

Form of John

Yohana has been given to 1,417 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #3,572 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Yohana, 2025

1 in 77,100

Yohana over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yohana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yohana means

Yohana is a form of John.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yohana → John. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is gracious”, recorded in the naming reference for John.

Origin, language, and formation

Yohana is used in Swahili.

Yohana comes through German Johann.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,410 girls were recorded with the name Yohana between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,675 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,397 in 2020 to #3,572 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,699 in 2015 to #3,572 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Yohana between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,892 in 2024.

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 Yohana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,572
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yohana 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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yohana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yohanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yohana was born before 2011 — so the typical Yohana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,410
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (466).

Is Yohana 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
−684
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−175
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+127
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.2%
Peak was 2018 (65)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,675
2018

Spellings of Yohana

Yohana is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 38.9% against Yohana'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 Yohana is used

Across 1910–2025, Yohana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 108,925 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Yohana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yohana around the world

Where Yohana 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
    2015–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2024
    #5,436
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yohana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 175
Best rank ever
#2,675
2018
Peak year
2018
65 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,410
Count in 2025
43

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,892
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yohana

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

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Sibling names for Yohana

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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