Yovany
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yoh-VAH-nee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Yovany is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Yovany mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Yovani; Spanish phonetic spelling of Giovanni (John)
“God is gracious”
A Spanish phonetic spelling of Giovanni, the Italian form of John.
Meaning borrowed from Yovani.
Is Yovany a girl's or a boy's name?
Yovany is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yovany in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 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, 13 boys in the US were named Yovany, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 45 boys. It first appears in the records in 1983.
Half of all the boys named Yovany in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 89 boys in the US were given Yovany or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,589, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.
Yovany in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,285 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,062 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,030 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,883 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,681 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,719 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,264 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,248 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,152 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,706 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,364 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,776 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,789 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,138 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,060 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,099 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,409 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,346 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,906 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,046 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,284 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,240 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,106 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,088 |
| 1990 | 10 | #4,986 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,083 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,920 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,904 |
Names like Yovany
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Elijah, Malachi, Isaiah, Josiah, Zachary, Mateo, Avery, Elias, Noah, Eliel, Jacoby, Adriel
Other spellings of Yovany
Names related to Yovany
More Hebrew names
Isabella, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elsie, Levi, Eliana
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, “Yovany: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yovany, updated 20 October 2026.