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The first name 
Yohana

Yohana is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Yohana meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Yohana is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Yohana. In the SmartGenius ranking, Yohana is #2,872 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yohana.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Yohana

Yohana -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Yohana did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Yohana seemed to be more popular than ever in 2018. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,379, 65 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Yohana, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Yohana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Yohana in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Yohana a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,458 - with a total of 62 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Yohana -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Yohana in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 438 women and girls named Yohana, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 438 women and girls named Yohana live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland and Texas. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Yohana. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Yohana lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Yohana and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Yohana relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 61,118 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Yohana.

Yohana has 6 letters 
and begins with a Y

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Yohana is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.

Other names with 
Y, o, h, a, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Yohana – Y, o, h, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Yohaan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Yohana

If your name is Yohana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Yohana

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yohana, you can simply say:

Yoyo

Orange

Hat

Apple

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Yohana is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Yohana in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Yohana

Yohana

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Yohana

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Yohana is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Y
O
H
A
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Yohana

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Y
O
H
A
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yohana sounds like this: