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Yoan vs Yoandra

American parents have registered 526 Yoans since 1880, against 32 Yoandras. Yoan is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoan against Yoandra, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoan Yoandra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Yoan for 33 years and Yoandra for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Yoan Yoandra
Total US births 52632
Most in one year 3324
Babies in 2025 31under 5
Estimated living today 52030
Median age today 1332
Peak year 20241993
Best rank 3,455th boys4,257th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 19881993
Girls / boys 0 / 52632 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Yoandras alive today are over 32; half the Yoans are over 13. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yoan and Yoandra.