indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Gender Masculine
Usage African American (Rare), Hausa (?)
Meaning & History
Used by American comedian, writer and civil rights activist Dick Gregory for his son born 1973. According to a 1973 issue of Jet magazine, Gregory and his wife Lillian found the name in a book called Names from Africa, and Yohance 'means "God's gift" in the Hausa language of Nigeria.'