Yohanes

Boys' name

Variant of Iōannēs

Yohanes has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Yohanes, 2023

1 in 552,000

Yohanes over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yohanes: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Iōannēs

Dutch, Greek, Hebrew and Latin

What Yohanes means

Yohanes is a variant of Iōannēs.

Origin, language, and formation

Yohanes is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Dutch, Greek, Hebrew and Latin.

Yohanes comes through Dutch Johannes, Late Latin Iōhannēs, Latin Iōannēs, Koine Greek Ἰωάννης and Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iōannēs.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Yohanes is pronounced /joˈhanəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Yohanes between 1996 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2003; its best national rank was #8,611 in 2003.

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.

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How common is Yohanes?

Yohanes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yohanes 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yohanes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yohaness were born

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

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 90.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 54; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Yohanes 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (8)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,611; 2003

Spellings of Yohanes

Yohanes is not the most common spelling — Johannes is, with 47.4% against Yohanes's 1.1%.

Johannes47.4%2,314
Yohan38.2%1,865
Younes13.2%645
Yohanes1.1%54

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.

Yohanes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,611; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 8 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 54
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yohanes

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

Yohannes Yohanan Yohann Yohannan Yohaan Yohandry Hovanes Hovhannes Yohei Yohance Barnes Burnes Yunes Haines Dennes Hannes Yohsuke Yohel Yohandri Yohana Sostenes Hovannes Raines Diogenes

Sibling names for Yohanes

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shreya Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Sydnee

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary

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