Yahya (name)

Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also written Yahia is a common Arabic male given name. Because Yahya (commonly identified as John the Baptist) is a prophet in Islam, Yahya is a very common name in the Muslim world. Yahya (Arabic: يَحِيَّى, romanized: Yaḥiyyā) is also the Arabic equivalent of the name of the Levitical priest Jehiah in the Bible.[1]

("HANNA" for Arab Christians)

Yahya
PronunciationYah. Ya
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningit is also given by God
Other names
Related namesJehiah, Yechi'yah, John, Yūḥanna, Evan, Giovanni, Hans, Juan, Hovhannes, Ian, Ioan, Ioane, Ivan, Iven, Ifan, Jack, Jackson, Jan, Jane, Janez, Jean, Jhon, Joan, João, Johan, Johanan, Johannes, Jonne, Jovan, Juhani, Seán, Shane, Siôn, Yohannes, Yahye

In Persian, Yahya is a title of address for a senior village or community elder; it is also a common nickname for the 12th Imam.

It may refer to:

Mononym

  • Yahya Jami (2nd April 1998 - Present), Software Engineer in Bangalore
  • Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion
  • Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of the Persian Barmakids family
  • Yahya ibn Umar ibn Yahya ibn Husayn ibn Zayd ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin ibn Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Murtada[2], Alid imam
  • Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq (fl. 796–806), translator of Greek scientific texts
  • Yahya ibn Asad, Samanid ruler of Shash (819–855) and Samarkand (851/852–855)
  • Yahya ibn Muhammad (aka Yahya I), Idrisid ruler (848–864)
  • Yahya ibn Yahya (died 874), sixth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
  • Yahya of Antioch (Yahya ibn Sa'ïd), 11th-century Syrian chronicler
  • Yahya (Zaragoza) (fl. 1021–1029), full name Yahya ibn al-Mundhir, 11th century ruler of Zaragoza
  • Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, 15th century Persian language writer from the Delhi Sultanate of India
  • Sultan Yahya (1585–1649), son of Sultan Mehmed III, a Christian convert and a claimant to the Ottoman throne
  • Yahya bey Dukagjini (1498–1582), Ottoman diwan poet

Given name

  • Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born 1986), American actor
  • Yahya Al-Shehri (born 1990), Saudi footballer
  • Yahya Ayyash (1966–1996), member and chief bombmaker of Hamas
  • Yahya El Hindi (born 1998), Lebanese footballer
  • Yahya Goba, Yemeni-American terrorist suspect arrested and charged as part of the War on Terror together with the other members of the "Lackawanna Six"
  • Yahya GolMohammadi (born 1971), Iranian footballer
  • Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869–1948), imam of the Zaydis (1904) and king of Yemen (1926)
  • Yahya Hassan (born 1995), Palestinian-Danish poet and politician
  • Yahya Jammeh (born 1965), president of The Gambia
  • Yahya Khan (1917–1980), former President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff
  • Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1958), commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
containing the name
  • Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader of Azali Bábism
  • Sultan Yahya Petra (1917–1979), sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (roughly equivalent to King) of Malaysia

Surname

See also

  • .
  • Yahyaabad (disambiguation)

References

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