boys:
768 births since 1983
#3819 (17th percentile)
overall:
768 births since 1983
#6971 (10th percentile)
The name Yobani is the #6,971 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 768 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 9.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,819 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 768 births since 1983.
Yobani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (first recorded for boys in 1983). Birth data for Yobani is available in 39 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Yobani reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #862) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 23 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yobani ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yobani".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yobani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.9% confident that Yobani is pronounced as yoh-BAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yoh-BUH-nee, at 12.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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