Joahan
Joahan was last recorded in 2005, when 10 babies were given it; 143 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joahan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joahan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,372, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2002, the peak
Joahan peaked in 2002, when 44 boys were given it, #2,350 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | #7,372 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,932 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,317 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,350 | 22.7 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,833 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,205 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joahan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joahan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 6 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joahan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joahan, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Joahan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 23 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 153 people named Joahan (15 women and girls, 138 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,225,850 babies since 1880, Joahan is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 8,648 babies recorded by SSA was a Joahan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joahan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joahan and names like it
- Compare Joahan and JohnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoahan peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joahan since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Joahan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joahan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.