Yobani
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ʝoβani/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Yobani is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 25Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 28Kfew records
- COColombia≈1 in 30K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yobani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Yobani | 32 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 2 | Yobani | 53 |
| US United States | — | 743 | 1 in 448K | 721 | Yobani | 102 |
| GT Guatemala | #584 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Yobani | 15 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Yobani | 26 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Yobani | 11 |
| HN Honduras | #501 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Yobani | 11 |
| SV El Salvador | #971 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Yobani | 9 |
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: the mx-cdmx-nombres register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yobani Ricardob. 1990COassociation football player
- Yobani Uribe NoreñaCOPerson killed in Colombia in the context of the 'false positives scandal' or extrajudicial executions
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 721 | #15,472 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 50 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 26 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Yobani?
- In Spanish /ʝoβani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Yobani a male or female name?
- Yobani is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Yobani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Yobani in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yobani.
- How common is the name Yobani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 743 people named Yobani in 2020, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.
- How common is Yobani compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Yobani is the 501st most common given name of 23,588 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/yobaniThe 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, “Yobani” — the 501st most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.