Yohane
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yohane is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malawi, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 802K◐
- MWMalawi1 in 731
- ZMZambia1 in 125K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈265 ●
- Sources
- 27 ●
- 1 in 802K ◐
across 2 countries
909 records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MW Malawi | #65 | 568 | 19 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 274 | 274 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 264△ | 64 rec. | 1 in 802K | 264 | Yohane | 27 |
| PE Peru | — | 109 | 89 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 8 |
| US United States | — | 85 | 91 rec. | — | listed | Yohane | 22 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 60 | 50 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 55 | 113 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 10 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 52 | 52 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 6 |
| CL Chile | — | 44 | 5 rec. | — | 1 | Yohane | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 20 | 22 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 2 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 17 | 2 rec. | — | 1 | Yohane | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16 | 13 rec. | — | — | Yohane | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese2.4K37%
- French1.4K22%
- English1K16%
- Spanish5178%
- Swahili3415%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 2,391 | 37% |
| French | 1,393 | 22% |
| English | 1,029 | 16% |
| Spanish | 517 | 8% |
| Swahili | 341 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Yohane Suzgo Nyirendab. 1976roman-catholic bishop
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●
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 264 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 242 | #20,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 124 | #32,801 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 124 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 118 | #20,004 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 101 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 79 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #111,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 45 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 35 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yohane?
- We estimate roughly 265 people bear Yohane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yohane have the most bearers?
- Yohane is most frequently recorded in Malawi, where it is most often spelled yohane.
- How common is Yohane compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Yohane is the 65th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Yohane a male or female name?
- Yohane is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yohane” — the 65th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.