Yahya
Last seen for girls in 2011 at #14,824 · #615 for boys in 2025, 455 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 455 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,576since 1972
Yahya over time
Rank among boys' names. Yahya has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #615 | 455 | |
| 2024 | — | #707 | 379 | |
| 2023 | — | #881 | 265 | |
| 2022 | — | #940 | 243 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,085 | 195 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,005 | 210 | |
| 2019 | — | #949 | 226 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,018 | 202 | |
| 2017 | — | #920 | 230 | |
| 2016 | — | #935 | 224 | |
| 2015 | — | #977 | 211 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,137 | 167 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,080 | 173 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,155 | 158 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,309 | 130 |
| 2010 | — | #1,456 | 113 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,309 | 133 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,639 | 94 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,681 | 90 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,738 | 80 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,889 | 67 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,131 | 55 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,269 | 47 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,685 | 35 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,935 | 56 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,795 | 30 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,981 | 25 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,094 | 15 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,105 | 21 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,462 | 17 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,005 | 16 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yahya! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yahya is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#420 · 1 in 2,518
- Massachusetts#499 · 1 in 3,707
- Washington#544 · 1 in 3,266
- Virginia#555 · 1 in 3,802
- New Jersey#641 · 1 in 4,608
Best ever in a state: #213 in Minnesota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #420 | 11 | 1 in 2,518 |
| Massachusetts | #499 | 8 | 1 in 3,707 |
| Washington | #544 | 11 | 1 in 3,266 |
| Virginia | #555 | 11 | 1 in 3,802 |
| New Jersey | #641 | 9 | 1 in 4,608 |
| Maryland | #765 | 5 | 1 in 5,548 |
| New York | #850 | 15 | 1 in 6,954 |
| Arizona | #859 | 5 | 1 in 7,398 |
| Ohio | #938 | 7 | 1 in 8,537 |
| Illinois | #1,073 | 7 | 1 in 9,502 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 12,046 |
| Georgia | #1,207 | 5 | 1 in 10,802 |
| California | #1,282 | 14 | 1 in 16,464 |
| Texas | #1,456 | 10 | 1 in 17,764 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Yahya
- 92 spots since 2024 (#707 → #615)
- 390 spots since 2020 (#1,005 → #615)
- 362 spots since 2015 (#977 → #615)
- Biggest jump: 174 spots in 2024 (#881 → #707)
- Biggest drop: 98 spots in 2018 (#920 → #1,018)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2025 at #615 (455 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,754 boys born in 2025 were named Yahya (0.03%)
- 40.1% of all boys named Yahya (1,834) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 18 | #3,963 (1972) | #5,054 |
| 1980s | 96 | #3,005 (1986) | #4,509 |
| 1990s | 181 | #2,795 (1999) | #3,973 |
| 2000s | 700 | #1,309 (2009) | #1,953 |
| 2010s | 1,834 | #920 (2017) | #1,094 |
| 2020s | 1,747 | #615 (2025) | #872 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yahya in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,006 of them was named Yahya, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,151Boden159
- #1,151Dion159
- #1,151Lamont159
- #1,155Yahya158
- #1,155Clyde158
- #1,155Damani158
- #1,155Emmet158
- #1,161Abner157
- #1,161Adolfo157
- #1,161Brighton157
Tied with 5 names at #1,155; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.