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Yohannes

#4,850 in 2025Boys' name

Form of John

Yohannes has been given to 440 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,850 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Yohannes, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yohannes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of John

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yohannes means

Yohannes is a form of John.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include John.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 440 boys were recorded with the name Yohannes between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,221 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,438 in 2020 to #4,850 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,982 in 2015 to #4,850 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 Yohannes?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,850
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yohannes 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yohannes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yohanness were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yohannes was born before 2015 — so the typical Yohannes is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
440
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Yohannes 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
+378
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+588
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,132
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.0%
Peak was 2019 (25)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,221
2019

Spellings of Yohannes

Yohannes is not the most common spelling — Johannes is, with 84.0% against Yohannes's 16.0%.

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 Yohannes is used

Across 1910–2025, Yohannes was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 376,858 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Maryland1 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. Yohannes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yohannes around the world

Where Yohannes 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
    2007–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • France
    1983–2013
    #4,449
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Yohannes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,850
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 588
Best rank ever
#4,221
2019
Peak year
2019
25 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
440
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Yohannes

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

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Sibling names for Yohannes

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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