Yohana
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Yohana is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,410 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Yohana is a Spanish and Swahili form of Johanna, and Johanna is the feminine of John — which puts a Hebrew sentence about grace at the bottom of it.
How old is the name Yohana?
Yohana first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Yohana alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,400 people named Yohana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yohana most popular?
Yohana peaked in 2018, reaching #2647 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, 870 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Yohana
The story of Yohana
Yohanan is the Hebrew original, and the initial consonant is a y — the J of John is a later European development. Spanish-speaking families respelled the feminine as Yohana so that Spanish readers would produce the right sound, and Swahili took Yohana directly from missionary Bibles, where it is a men's name. American records hold the Spanish women's name chiefly, with the Swahili men's name appearing separately.
Meaning
God is gracious
From Hebrew Yohanan through Latin Iohanna; the Y spelling reproduces the original Hebrew consonant, which Latin wrote as I and English as J.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Iohanna
- Yohana
Related forms: Johanna · Yohana · Johanna · Juana
Pronouncing Yohana
yoh-AH-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yohana
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 201865 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2647reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −25.9%43 in 2025, from 58
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yohana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Johanna in English — same name
- Yohana in Swahili — related form
- Johanna in German — same name
- Juana in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Maryland.
Yohanas among us
people named Yohana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Yohana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yohana
- #3517
- Yohana on the 2025 chart
- #879
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yohana went to 43 girls in 2025, but Yohanna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 81, which makes it the 879th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,638 places above the chart.
- Yohana43
- Yohanna38
About 1 girl in 19,843 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Yohana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dondra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yohana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dondra climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dondra's path sketches the road Yohana is walking now.
Yohana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yohana is headed
Yohana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yohana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yohana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning inherited from one of the most-used names in human history.
- The Y is closer to the Hebrew original than the J of Johanna.
- Hana sits inside it as a complete name in its own right.
- Johanna and Joanna are both far better known in English and will be assumed.
- In Swahili the same spelling is a men's name, which occasionally surprises.
- English readers are unsure whether the Y is a consonant or a vowel.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yohanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Yohana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yohana?
- Yohana is the most-used spelling in US records — 43 of the 81 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yohanna.
- How popular is the name Yohana in 2025?
- Yohana ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yohana?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Yohana — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yohana with classmates?
- Yohana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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