Given name & surname
Yohannan
“God is gracious”
Yohannan is a variant of Yochanan. In Hebrew use, Yochanan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yohannan is a variant of Yochanan. In Hebrew use, Yochanan carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yohannan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,851 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,851 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 508 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yohannan’s family of names
Yohannan has a related form in Yochanan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yohannan
- Shimun VIII Yohannan SulaqaPatriarch of Babylonia1510–1555
- Yohannan VIII HormizdPatriarch of Chaldean Catholic Church1760–1838
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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