Given name
Yohance
“a gift from God”
Yohance is used as a given name. One African interpretation is “a gift from God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a gift from God.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yohance through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 407
- 407 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 44 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 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 44 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 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.
Yohance’s family of names
Yohance has a related form in Yohanse.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Yohance
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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