Meaning not yet researched.
Yahya: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 455 in 2025. Its best rank was #616 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yahya in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#616 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yahya: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 455 boys in 2025. Peak: #616 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 455 (2025).
In 2025, 455 US boys were named Yahya, making it the 616th most common boys’ name of the year, up 91 places from #707 in 2024. That is 76 more than the 379 boys named Yahya in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #616, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 455. For comparison, it was #982 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yahya in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 7 babies. In all, 4,582 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,840 babies named Yahya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,629 US boys were named Yahya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 455. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,754 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yahya ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #217 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Yahia, Yahye and Yaa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yahia (561), Yahye (347), Yaa (269), Yaya (71), Yahyo (5), Yahyaa (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yahya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 30 | #217 | #313 |
| Illinois | 41 | #275 | #776 |
| Michigan | 29 | #324 | #531 |
| New York | 52 | #344 | #646 |
| Virginia | 20 | #407 | #783 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #425 | — |
| New Jersey | 18 | #449 | #583 |
| California | 48 | #614 | #1,117 |
| Texas | 50 | #621 | #1,003 |
| Ohio | 16 | #625 | #775 |
| Washington | 10 | #682 | #942 |
| Maryland | 7 | #699 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #705 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #717 | #1,116 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #771 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #786 | #820 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #789 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #844 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #866 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #984 | #1,208 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,253 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 455 | #616 |
| 2024 | — | — | 379 | #707 |
| 2023 | — | — | 265 | #881 |
| 2022 | — | — | 243 | #942 |
| 2021 | — | — | 195 | #1,087 |
| 2020 | — | — | 210 | #1,006 |
| 2019 | — | — | 226 | #952 |
| 2018 | — | — | 202 | #1,022 |
| 2017 | — | — | 230 | #922 |
| 2016 | — | — | 224 | #938 |
| 2015 | — | — | 211 | #982 |
| 2014 | — | — | 167 | #1,142 |
| 2013 | — | — | 173 | #1,083 |
| 2012 | — | — | 158 | #1,160 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,664 | 130 | #1,317 |
| 2010 | — | — | 113 | #1,461 |
| 2009 | — | — | 133 | #1,313 |
| 2008 | — | — | 94 | #1,654 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,698 |
| 2006 | — | — | 80 | #1,757 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,921 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,160 |
| 2003 | — | — | 47 | #2,310 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | — | — | 56 | #1,957 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,296 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,862 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,293 |
| 1997 | — | — | 25 | #3,063 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,547 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,788 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,285 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,210 |
| 1992 | — | — | 21 | #3,215 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,630 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,165 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,597 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,773 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,124 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,126 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,043 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,960 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,405 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,227 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,249 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,930 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #6,043 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,846 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,432 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).