Yohan
Yohan was given to 158 boys in 2025, #1,259 among boys’ names; 1,865 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Yohan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 3 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yohan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yohan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yohan is “a male given name, equivalent to English John.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yohan?
#1,259 among boys’ names, 2025
Yohan rose from #2,110 in 2015 to #1,259 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.0 to 92.5 per million.
180 babies in 2024, the peak
Yohan peaked in 2024, when 180 boys were given it, #1,164 among boys’ names. The 158 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,259 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,164 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,396 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,704 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 77 | #1,961 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,021 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 81 | #1,867 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 78 | #1,918 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 90 | #1,734 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,436 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,110 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,904 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 79 | #1,861 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,125 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,351 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,583 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,826 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,970 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,840 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,410 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,273 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,181 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,377 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,297 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #6,024 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,296 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #8,085 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,776 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,087 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,951 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,228 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yohan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yohan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yohan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yohan, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,865 Americans ever recorded as Yohan. The median Yohan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 3 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,186 people named Yohan (41 women and girls, 2,145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 534 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yohan born?
The states with the most babies named Yohan are California, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #904 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 16 | #909 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #845 | 0.2× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,904 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 9 | #932 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,405 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,348 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #787 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,271 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #945 | 0.3× |
Where Yohan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yohan is most over-represented in Florida: since 1980 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yohan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,395 babies since 1880, Yohan is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 158 of their 324 babies (49%), again the most given.
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 Yohan
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 Yohan and names like it
- Compare Yohan and YanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYohan peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yohan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yohan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yohan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.