Yohane
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/joan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yohane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malawi than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- MWMalawi≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 23K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 47K
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.
- Malawi (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malawi, 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.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yohane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MW Malawi | #67 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Yohane | 12 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Yohane | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Yohane | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Yohane | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 264 | 1 in 802K | 264 | Yohane | 23 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Yohane | 4 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
- 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).
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #111,063 |
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 Yohane?
- A machine transcription gives /joan/ (IPA) for French.
- 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.
- In which country does Yohane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Yohane in Malawi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yohane.
- How common is the name Yohane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 264 people named Yohane in 2022, about 1 in 802 thousand residents.
- How common is Yohane compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Yohane is the 67th most common given name of 3,102 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yohane?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yohaneThe 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, “Yohane” — the 67th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.