Yochanon — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yochanon

The Social Security Administration has registered 39 babies named Yochanon between 1993 and 2021, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yochanon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yochanon performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yochanon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yochanon in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yochanon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 39 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.