YoHance
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hausa (West Africa): 'God's gift', referring to John the Baptist
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/joʊəns/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
YoHance is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 878K(measured from records)
- MTMalta≈1 in 6.6K
- GYGuyana1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
379 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hausa (West Africa): 'God's gift', referring to John the Baptist.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)YoHance counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 379 | 1 in 878K | 371 | YoHance | 158 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | YoHance | 2 |
| GY Guyana | #998 | 78 | 1 in 9.6K | 78 | YoHance | 2 |
| MT Malta | #147 | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | YoHance | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | YoHance | 23 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | YoHance | 4 |
379 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling yohance. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)YoHance is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God’s gift.
as a nameThe African book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yohance Marshallb. 1986TTTrinidadian footballer (born 1986)
- Yohance M. AlletteUSneuroimmunology fellow at University of Maryland School of Medicine
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 371 | #25,135 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 78 | #516 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 12 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name YoHance mean, and where does it come from?
- Hausa (West Africa): 'God's gift', referring to John the Baptist. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce YoHance?
- A machine transcription gives /joʊəns/ (IPA) for English.
- Is YoHance a male or female name?
- YoHance is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does YoHance have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 379 people named YoHance, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled YoHance.
- How common is the name YoHance?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named YoHance in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
- How common is YoHance compared with other names?
- In Malta, YoHance is the 147th most common given name of 1,328 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yohanceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “YoHance” — the 147th most common given name in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.