Yohance vs Yohanna
American parents have registered 1,025 Yohannas since 1880, against 407 Yohances. Yohanna is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Yohance Yohanna
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Yohanna for 39 years and Yohance for 15 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1973–1986 Yohance ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1989–2025 Yohanna ahead, apart from 3 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Yohance | Yohanna | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 407 | 1,025 |
| Most in one year | 44 | 65 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 38 |
| Estimated living today | 390 | 1,000 |
| Median age today | 32 | 11 |
| Peak year | 1973 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 1,238th boys | 2,661st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 3,832nd |
| First recorded | 1973 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 407 | 1,025 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Yohances alive today are over 32; half the Yohannas are over 11. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yohance and Yohanna.