Yahia

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yahia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name893 records spelled Yahia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Morocco, India, Algeria

  Also written Yahiá

• Norwegian Bokmål given name553 records spelled Yahia7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Syria, Algeria

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Yàhïå, Yàhià

• Portuguese given name397 records spelled Yahia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Algeria, Portugal

  Also written Yàhià, Yâhïâ, Yăhïa, Yähiã, Yãhïã

• Bangla given name247 records spelled Yahia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, Türkiye, Syria

  Also written Ýáhîã

• Czech given name113 records spelled Yahia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Syria

  Also written Yahiã

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 26 years between 2000–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Yaḥya al Abiachb. 1863YEnot in their usual nameYemeni rabbi
• Yahia Turkib. 1903TNTunisian painter (1903–1969)
• Yahia Boushakib. 1935DZAlgerian politician and military
• Yahia Chefchaounib. 1937MAMoroccan politician
• Yahia Gouasmib. 1949FRFrench politician
• Yahia Belaskrib. 1952DZFrench-algerian journalist and novelist
• Yahia El-Mekacharib. 1990TNTunisian boxer
• Yahia Omarb. 1997EGEgyptian handball player
• Yahia Fofanab. 2000FRIvorian and French footballer
• Yahia H. ZoubirFRAlgerian political scientist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 170 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yahia?

We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Yahia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Yahia have the most bearers?

Yahia is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled yahia.

How common is Yahia compared with other names?

In Egypt, Yahia is the 583rd most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Yahia a male or female name?

Yahia is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.