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Yotam

#13,854 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jotham

Yotam has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #13,854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Yotam, 2025

1 in 663,000

Yotam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yotam: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jotham

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yotam means

Yotam is a form of Jotham.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yotam is used in Biblical Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yotam → Jotham. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is perfect + perfect, complete”, recorded in the naming reference for Jotham.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jotham.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 boys were recorded with the name Yotam between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2002; its best national rank was #6,510 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,039 in 2020 to #13,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,986 in 2015 to #13,854 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 Yotam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,854
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yotam 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yotam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yotams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yotam was born before 2007 — so the typical Yotam is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Yotam 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
−5,815
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+132
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2002 (11)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,510
2002

Spellings of Yotam

Yotam is not the most common spelling — Noam is, with 28.6% against Yotam's 1.5%.

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.

Yotam around the world

Where Yotam 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
    2005–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2000–2004
    #4,940
    in 2004
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yotam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,815
Best rank ever
#6,510
2002
Peak year
2002
11 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Yotam

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

RustamRitamGautamRostamTamPritamSattamPreetamTristam

Sibling names for Yotam

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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