Yang — #11237 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yang

The Social Security Administration has registered 291 babies named Yang between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yang currently holds the #11237 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Yang is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yang performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yang shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Yang in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yang 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 291 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.