Yardley — unisex name

What the Data Says About Yardley

The Social Security Administration has registered 107 babies named Yardley between 1977 and 2021, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yardley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Yardley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yardley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 61 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yardley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yardley 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 107 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.