Yoan
Yoan was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,653 among boys’ names; 526 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yoan?
#3,653 among boys’ names, 2025
Yoan rose from #6,306 in 2015 to #3,653 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 18.1 per million.
33 babies in 2024, the peak
Yoan peaked in 2024, when 33 boys were given it, #3,521 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,653 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,521 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,447 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,560 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,353 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,221 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,996 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,326 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,662 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,698 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,306 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,985 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,906 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,673 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,241 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,469 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,319 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,477 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,200 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,852 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,861 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,782 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,238 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,313 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,426 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,816 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,679 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,600 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,235 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,502 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,488 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,349 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,130 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,085 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,469 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoan, and how old are they?
An estimated 519 Americans named Yoan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,240 people named Yoan (35 women and girls, 1,205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 373 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4,613 babies since 1880, Yoan is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 328 babies (9.5%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Yoan
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 Yoan and names like it
- Compare Yoan and YohanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYoan peaked in 2024.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yoan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yoan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.