Yan — #2887 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yan

The Social Security Administration has registered 927 babies named Yan between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yan currently holds the #2887 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Yan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 78 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Yan in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yan 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 927 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.