Yohance

Where Yohance comes from

Yohance hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    Debut at its peak, #1,238
    #1,238 among boys with 44 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,902.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yohance hasn't yet.

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.