Given name
Yoann
“God is gracious”
In French use, Yoann has a related form in Yoan. In Bulgarian use, Yoan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In French use, Yoann has a related form in Yoan. In Bulgarian use, Yoan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoann through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoann’s family of names
In French usage, Yoann has a related form in Yoan.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Yoann
- Yoann GourcuffFrench footballer (born 1986)
- WoodkidFrench singer, songwriter, music video director and graphic designerborn 1983
- Yoann Offredoroad bicycle racerborn 1986
- Yoann TouzgharTunisian and French association football player (born 1986)
- Yoann KowalFrench middle-distance, long-distance and steeplechase runnerborn 1987
- Yoann BagotFrench cyclistborn 1987
- Yoann LangletMauritanian and French association football playerborn 1982
- Yoann WachterGabonese association football playerborn 1992
- Yoann SalmierFrench Guianese association football playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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