"Variant of Yahya"
The name Yahia is commonly a male name from the "Arabic" origin.
Yahia is one of several Latin-script renderings of the Arabic name Yahya, the Arabic form of the name John. Arabic transliteration is not standardized, so Yahya, Yahia and Yehia all appear as spellings of the same name. Yahya is the name given in the Quran to the figure corresponding to John the Baptist.
Yahya means "God is gracious".
The pronunciation of Yahia is yah-HEE-uh.
