Yahya

Where Yahya comes from

From Arabic يَحْيَى (yaḥyā), equivalent to John in the Qur'an.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yahya
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    Yahya Sinwar born
    Palestinian politician and Hamas leader
  2. 1965
    Yahya Jammeh born
    2nd President of the Gambia
  3. 1972
    First appearance
    #3,963 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #615
    455 babies named Yahya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Yahya Sinwar · Palestinian politician and Hamas leader, 1962–2024
  • Yahya Jammeh · 2nd President of the Gambia, born 1965
  • Yahya Abdul-Mateen II · American actor, born 1986
  • Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din · Imam, 1869–1948
  • Yahya Golmohammadi · Iranian association football player and manager, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.