Yailene
Yailene was last recorded in 2012, when 8 babies were given it; 120 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yailene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yailene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,410, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1998, the peak
Yailene peaked in 1998, when 17 girls were given it, #6,059 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #13,410 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,392 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,349 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,551 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,097 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,714 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,325 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,213 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,704 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,107 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 | #8,781 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,059 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,314 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yailene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yailene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yailene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yailene, and how old are they?
An estimated 119 Americans named Yailene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 21 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 142 people named Yailene (140 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 412 babies since 1880, Yailene is the second most given (29% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yailene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yailene and names like it
- Compare Yailene and YalenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYailene peaked in 1998.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yailene since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Yailene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yailene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.