Uyen — girls' name
397 babies named Uyen in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Uyen was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Uyen in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Uyen
The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Uyen between 1977 and 2019, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Uyen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Uyen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 175 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Uyen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Uyen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Uyen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 397 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Uyen at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Uyen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1977
- Peak year (1981)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
397 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 27 births in a single year.
Uyen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 175 births that decade — 44% of Uyen's all-time total
Uyen decade highlights
- Peak decade 175 births
- Runner-up 96 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Uyen's strongest decade
175 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Uyen by state
Where Uyen concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 72 | 18.1% |
72 of 397 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 18.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 18.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.