Yahyaa
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- YAH-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
Yahyaa is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “he lives”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies).
What does Yahyaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Yahya; Quranic name of John the Baptist
“he lives”
The Quranic name of John the Baptist, son of the prophet Zakariya; in Arabic it is usually understood as he lives.
Meaning borrowed from Yahya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Yahyaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Yahyaa is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yahyaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,747among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Yahyaa, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 8 boys.
Half of all the boys named Yahyaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 669 boys in the UK were given Yahyaa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #94, up from #3,747 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Yahyaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 7 | #2,886 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 5 | #3,655 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,086 |
| 2014 | 8 | #2,593 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,008 |
| 2012 | 5 | #3,572 |
| 2011 | 4 | #3,986 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 5 | #3,305 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,231 |
| 2006 | 6 | #2,645 |
| 2005 | 6 | #2,545 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #4,616 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #3,255 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,170 |
Names like Yahyaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad Musa Mustafa Ahmed Abdullah Zayan Zayaan Zayd Ibrahim Umar Rayyan Arham
Other spellings of Yahyaa
Names related to Yahyaa
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yahyaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yahyaa, updated 20 October 2026.