girls:
16 births since 1992
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1973
#2794 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1973
#5746 (26th percentile)
The name Yovani is the #5,746 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,031 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 25.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,794 (39.0% percentile) for all time with 2,015 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1992.
Yovani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1992 for girls). Birth data for Yovani is available in 42 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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.
The name Yovani has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yovani reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 12.6% percentile (ranked #763) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 54 births per million (ranked 12.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yovani ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 37.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yovani reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yovani".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yovani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Yovani is pronounced as yoh-VAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yoh-VUH-nee, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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