Boys' name · since 1997
Yaman
420 babies named Yaman in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #8,774 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #1,697 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 420
- born since 1997
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Yaman is the #1697 most popular boys' name in the U.S. today, with 420 recorded since 1997.
Yaman has 420 recorded births among boys since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #1697 as of the latest data, more common than 88% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2025.
- #8,774 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #1,697 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 420 born since 1997
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yaman ranks #8,774 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #1,697 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 420 born since 1997, peaking in the 2020s.
- #8,774 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #1,697 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 420
- born since 1997
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yaman's 420 recorded births place it above 80.7% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
8 jurisdictions carry state-level records, led by New York.
How Yaman compares
420 Top 48% higher than 52% of 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Yaman's all-time total is 14% above the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Yaman | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 420 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 97 | 34 | 22,252 |
Yaman's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Yaman's full recorded timeline at 2016, 81% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 19% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2003, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 97 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Yaman popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 97
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Yaman by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (268 births, 64% of the file).
2020s was Yaman's strongest decade.
268 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Yaman births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 8
1990s
8 births
- 2000s 29
2000s
29 births
- 2010s
2010s
115 births
- 2020s
2020s
268 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 268 births (64% of all-time use).
Yaman by state
Where Yaman concentrates geographically, total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 24 | 5.7% |
| #2 | Texas | | 24 | 5.7% |
| #3 | California | | 21 | 5.0% |
| #4 | Michigan | | 20 | 4.8% |
| #5 | Illinois | | 16 | 3.8% |
| #6 | Florida | | 13 | 3.1% |
| #7 | New Jersey | | 5 | 1.2% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 5 | 1.2% |
24 of 420 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
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What to do with Yaman's data
- New York records the most Yamans (24 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Yaman: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~28 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yaman draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.