Yohance

Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239

Peak · boys
1973 · 44 births
Debut · boys
44 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
407
since 1973

Yohance over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Yohance has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201978peak #1,238, 1973boys
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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
2024
2023#12,2395
2022#8,9908
2021#12,1465
2020#6,62012
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2016#9,6647
2015
2014#10,7176
2013#8,7898
2012#8,1589
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2008#9,8717
2007#5,66115
2006#6,90411
2005#6,22612
2004#8,1438
2003#6,71510
2002#5,13114
2001#6,44510
2000#6,31610
1999#8,7046
1998#5,46611
1997#7,2817
1996#7,9716
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1994#6,9687
1993#5,36010
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1991#8,2365
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1988#6,4266
1987#4,9688
1986#6,7215
1985#5,1477
1984#4,9737
1983#4,9077
1982#4,5938
1981#3,22113
1980#4,4958
1979#4,0689
1978#3,07013
1977#2,79115
1976#3,09512
1975#2,90213
1974#1,93423
1973#1,23844
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Yohance! It came in at #1,238, and was given to 44 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yohance
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1973 at #1,238 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 2 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 35,422
  • Highest: 1 in 35,422 boys born in 1973 were named Yohance (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 342,115 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
  • 31.7% of all boys named Yohance (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s129#1,238 (1973)#2,728
1980s69#3,221 (1981)#5,050
1990s52#5,360 (1993)#7,141
2000s97#5,131 (2002)#6,824
2010s30#8,158 (2012)#9,332
2020s30#6,620 (2020)#9,999

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.

Yohance in 1978

boys
#3,070
13 births · 1 in 126,295 boys

Top boys' names in 1978

  1. #1Michael67,127
  2. #2Jason51,600
  3. #3Christopher47,236
  4. #4David40,684
  5. #5James39,894
  6. #6Matthew34,282
  7. #7John34,014
  8. #8Robert33,374
  9. #9Brian29,432
  10. #10Joseph26,663
  11. #3,070Yohance13
More about 1978

boys

1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 126,295 of them was named Yohance, which outranked 54.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yohance
  1. #2,929Windell14
  2. #2,929Wyman14
  3. #2,929Yakov14
  4. #3,070Yohance13
  5. #3,070Alaric13
  6. #3,070Albino13
  7. #3,070Aleksander13
  8. #3,215Acie12
  9. #3,215Adin12
  10. #3,215Alek12

Tied with 144 names at #3,070; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1977
Risers
  1. 3,237Dequan#4,164#927
  2. 626Nicholaus#1,367#741
  3. 617Nicklaus#1,515#898
  4. 578Zebulon#1,476#898
  5. 424Anwar#1,121#697
Fallers
  1. 674Kinte#834#1,508
  2. 668Kunta#572#1,240
  3. 417Telly#732#1,149
  4. 415Lesley#937#1,352
  5. 310Amin#904#1,214

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

See the top 100 for 1978