Yehia
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- YEH-yah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Yehia is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “he lives”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Yehia mean?
Arabic: Egyptian spelling of Yahya, the Arabic form of John
“he lives”
Yahya is the Quranic name of John the Baptist, son of the prophet Zakariya.
Is Yehia a girl's or a boy's name?
Yehia is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yehia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,675th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Yehia, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the boys named Yehia in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yehia in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,808 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
Names like Yehia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kairo, Yahya, Chozen, Cairo, Kaizen, Amiri, Hamza, Tru, Kasai, Yazan, Yeshua, Kenzo
Names related to Yehia
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yehia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yehia, updated 20 October 2026.