Yohanna
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Yohanna is a form of Johanna, and behind it is one of the most productive names in history — Yohanan, which has given Europe John, Juan, Jean, Ivan, Sean and several dozen others.
How old is the name Yohanna?
Yohanna first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Yohanna is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Yohanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yohanna most popular?
Yohanna peaked in 2022, reaching #2661 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 1,171 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Yohanna
The story of Yohanna
Yohanan was a common Hebrew name and became a Christian one through John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, after which it spread everywhere Christianity went and mutated in every language it entered. The women's forms — Johanna, Joanna, Jane, Juana, Ioanna — are as many. Yohanna keeps the Hebrew and Ethiopian y and is used in Ethiopian, Eritrean and Scandinavian communities alike.
Meaning
God is gracious
From Hebrew Yohanan, joining a shortened form of the divine name to a root meaning to be gracious; the compound is a complete sentence and the same construction gives Hannah her name.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Iohanna
- Yohanna
Related forms: Joanna · Yohanna · Johanna · Ioanna
Pronouncing Yohanna
yo-HAH-nah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. English speakers may say yo-HAN-ah.
Nicknames for Yohanna
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
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 202265 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2661reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −20.8%38 in 2025, from 48
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.
Yohanna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Joanna in English — same name
- Yohanna in Amharic — same name
- Johanna in German — same name
- Ioanna in Greek — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Virginia, California, Maryland.
Yohannas among us
people named Yohanna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Yohanna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yohanna
- #3832
- Yohanna on the 2025 chart
- #879
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yohanna went to 38 girls in 2025, but Yohana 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 — 2,953 places above the chart.
- Yohana43
- Yohanna38
About 1 girl in 19,843 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Yohanna 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 Deneisha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yohanna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deneisha climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deneisha's path sketches the road Yohanna is walking now.
Yohanna 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 Yohanna is headed
Yohanna 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.
Yohanna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yohanna 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 that forms a complete sentence.
- Hanna and Anna are both complete names in their own right.
- Recognized in some form in nearly every European and Middle Eastern language.
- Johanna is the more common spelling in America and will be written for her.
- Seven letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- The initial Y will be replaced with a J constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yohannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Yohanna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yohanna?
- Yohanna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Yohana is the more common one — 43 births in 2025 against 38 for Yohanna.
- How popular is the name Yohanna in 2025?
- Yohanna ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yohanna?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Yohanna — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yohanna with classmates?
- Yohanna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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