Yale
Yale was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yale?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,244, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1929, the peak
Yale peaked in 1929, when 29 boys were given it, #1,338 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #14,244 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,955 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,707 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,720 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #14,110 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #8,010 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #12,044 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,679 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,833 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,156 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #9,826 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,987 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,598 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,954 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,267 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,901 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,699 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,622 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,509 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,293 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,868 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,440 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,629 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,864 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,499 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,769 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,133 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,553 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,624 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,982 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,437 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,436 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,226 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,795 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,134 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,957 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,785 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,969 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,408 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,485 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,560 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,047 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,845 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,259 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,447 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,994 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,218 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,146 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,969 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,210 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,912 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,306 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,971 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,888 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,470 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,201 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,198 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,754 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,239 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,117 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,656 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,028 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,491 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,625 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,556 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,738 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,388 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,801 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,596 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,436 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,602 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,815 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,860 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,686 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,769 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,464 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,831 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,627 | 14.5 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,820 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,892 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,711 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,323 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,679 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,800 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,928 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,561 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,540 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,993 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,001 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,692 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,338 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,645 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,645 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,844 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,188 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,226 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,500 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,694 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,474 | 24.5 |
| 1920 | 19 | #1,884 | 17.9 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,381 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,902 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,526 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,302 | 31.5 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,875 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,387 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,439 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,743 | 23.3 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,369 | 38.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yale has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yale, and how old are they?
An estimated 748 Americans named Yale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 31 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 981 people named Yale (77 women and girls, 904 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Yale
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 Yale and names like it
- Compare Yale and YsidroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sYale peaked in 1929.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yale since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Yale.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yale alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.