Yobani
About 780 American babies have been named Yobani since 1983, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 770 Yobanis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Yobani
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 780
- Estimated living today
- 770
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 2,515th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1983
How old the living Yobanis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 780 babies given the name since 1983, about 770 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Yobani is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yobani is most concentrated in California (6.6×), Texas (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Yobani peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.