Given name · Ottoman Turkish · Urdu
یحیی
یحیی (yaḥyā) is a masculine given name from Classical Persian, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Urdu and Ottoman Turkish.
Ottoman Turkish and UrduWritten in Arabic script, read right to left.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
یحیی comes from Classical Persian, and ultimately from Arabic.
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How it developed
From Classical Persian یحیی (yahyā), from Arabic يَحْيَى.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
یحیی’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
یحیی has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named یحیی
- Yahya SinwarPalestinian politician and Hamas leader (1962–2024)
- Yahya Jammeh2nd President of the Gambiaborn 1965
- Al-NawawiSunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar (1233–1277)
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIAmerican actorborn 1986
- Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-DinImam (1869–1948)
- Yahya GolmohammadiIranian association football player and managerborn 1971
- Yahya Al-ShehriSaudi Arabian footballerborn 1990
- John the Baptist in Islamson of Zechariah
- Yahya of AntiochMelkite Christian physician980–1066
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