Yobani
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 35 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 780since 1983
Yobani over time
Rank among boys' names. Yobani has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #2,515 | 50 |
| 2007 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #2,542 | 47 |
| 2005 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #2,299 | 35 |
| 1995 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yobani! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yobani is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,212 · 1 in 22,326
- Texas#1,618 · 1 in 31,413
Best ever in a state: #928 in North Carolina, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,212 | 11 | 1 in 22,326 |
| Texas | #1,618 | 5 | 1 in 31,413 |
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See more about Yobani
- 2,635 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #9,714)
- 975 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #9,714)
- 970 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 1996 at #2,299 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,803 boys born in 2008 were named Yobani (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,299 in 1996, was only 1 in 54,123 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.0% of all boys named Yobani (343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 38 | #4,215 (1984) | #5,985 |
| 1990s | 205 | #2,299 (1996) | #3,486 |
| 2000s | 343 | #2,515 (2008) | #3,116 |
| 2010s | 152 | #3,181 (2010) | #6,273 |
| 2020s | 42 | #8,300 (2022) | #10,028 |
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.
Yobani in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 67,326 of them was named Yobani, which outranked 74.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,680Wilber29
- #2,680Wylie29
- #2,680Yannick29
- #2,750Yobani28
- #2,750Abbas28
- #2,750Ansel28
- #2,750Anselmo28
- #2,823Abe27
- #2,823Adem27
- #2,823Akira27
Tied with 72 names at #2,750; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.