Yobani

#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births

Peak · boys
1996 · 35 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
780
since 1983

Yobani over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Yobani has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #2,299, 1996boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#9,7147
2024#12,3495
2023#8,9218
2022#8,3009
2021#12,1465
2020#8,7398
2019
2018#12,1565
2017#6,33813
2016#6,34913
2015#8,7448
2014#6,63212
2013#4,31322
2012#4,39022
2011#4,35622
2010#3,18135
2009#4,58221
2008#2,51550
2007#2,97439
2006#2,54247
2005#2,52844
2004#3,21730
2003#3,18629
2002#3,55424
2001#3,32126
2000#2,73633
1999#4,16217
1998#3,70819
1997#2,75028
1996#2,29935
1995#3,19121
1994#2,95124
1993#4,02015
1992#3,10521
1991#4,00514
1990#4,67311
1989#6,2297
1988#5,7517
1987#6,9515
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1985#6,5235
1984#4,2159
1983#6,2385
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First appearance
1983

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.

See more about Yobani
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 1996 at #2,299 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 1999, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 40,803
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 44.0% of all boys named Yobani (343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s38#4,215 (1984)#5,985
1990s205#2,299 (1996)#3,486
2000s343#2,515 (2008)#3,116
2010s152#3,181 (2010)#6,273
2020s42#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 2008

boys
#2,515
50 births · 1 in 40,803 boys

Top boys' names in 2008

  1. #1Jacob22,621
  2. #2Michael20,652
  3. #3Ethan20,223
  4. #4Joshua19,231
  5. #5Daniel19,032
  6. #6Alexander18,711
  7. #7Anthony18,417
  8. #8William18,403
  9. #9Christopher17,966
  10. #10Matthew17,604
  11. #2,515Yobani50
More about 2008

boys

2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 40,803 of them was named Yobani, which outranked 82.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yobani
  1. #2,467Ved51
  2. #2,467Westyn51
  3. #2,467Zakai51
  4. #2,515Yobani50
  5. #2,515Alessio50
  6. #2,515Alpha50
  7. #2,515Ameen50
  8. #2,542Abe49
  9. #2,542Aksel49
  10. #2,542Arik49

Tied with 26 names at #2,515; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. 2,801Urijah#3,687#886
  2. 1,035Jadiel#1,912#877
  3. 790Aaden#1,132#342
  4. 676Chace#1,337#661
  5. 500Marley#1,263#763
Fallers
  1. 688Kelan#977#1,665
  2. 286Talen#990#1,276
  3. 281Nery#901#1,182
  4. 250Kellan#883#1,133
  5. 250Efren#977#1,227

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2008