Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yotam isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yotam through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 152
- 152 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,858 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. 13,858 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 266 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.
Yotam’s family of names
Yotam may belong to the same name family as YOTTAM. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yotam
- Yotam HalperinIsraeli basketball player (born 1984)
- Yotam OttolenghiIsraeli-born chef, cookery writer and restaurant ownerborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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