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Baby name
Yahya
Boy
Origin of the name
Yahya is the Arabic equivalent of John: it goes back to the Hebrew Yohanan, “God is gracious.”
Rising name
4,576births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 615rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Yahya are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Yahya is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Yahya is most common in Minnesota (6.1 times), New York (2.5) and Illinois (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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