Given name
Yohan
“God is gracious”·“champion”
Yohan is a form of Johan. One interpretation is “champion.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Yohan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.” Yohan is a form of Johan. One interpretation is “champion.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
Yohan is used as a form of Johan.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yohan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,865
- 1,865 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 180 babies
- 2025
- 158
- #1,259 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +74%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 158 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,259 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 73.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (26). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,186 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yohan’s family of names
Yohan is a form of Johan. Yohan has a related form in Yohannes. In English usage, Yohan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Yohann.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Yohan has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yohan
- Yohan CabayeFrench footballer (born 1986)
- Yohan BlakeJamaican athletics competitorborn 1989
- Yohan BenalouaneTunisian and French association football playerborn 1987
- Yohann DinizFrench racewalkerborn 1978
- Yohan MolloFrench association football playerborn 1989
- Kim Yo-hanSouth Korean singer and actorborn 1999
- Yohan Goutt GonçalvesEast Timorese alpine skier (born 1994)
- Yohan BoliFrench association football playerborn 1993
- Yohan TavaresFrench and Portuguese footballerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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