Yash
Yash was given to 49 boys in 2025, #2,675 among boys’ names; 2,764 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Yash and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yash by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yash mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yash is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “fame, glory” (यश).
Borrowed from Sanskrit यश (yaśa, “fame, glory”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yash?
#2,675 among boys’ names, 2025
Yash fell from #2,166 in 2015 to #2,675 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 33.4 to 28.7 per million.
155 babies in 2002, the peak
Yash peaked in 2002, when 155 boys were given it, #1,006 among boys’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #2,675 | 28.7 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,096 | 41.8 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,273 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,215 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,408 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,653 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,933 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 53 | #2,470 | 29.2 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,152 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 73 | #1,990 | 38.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,166 | 33.4 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,997 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,041 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,597 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 85 | #1,736 | 44.8 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,480 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,340 | 65.5 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,342 | 63.2 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,326 | 62.2 |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,305 | 61.8 |
| 2005 | 149 | #1,110 | 74.6 |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,157 | 68.5 |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,080 | 72.9 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,006 | 79.8 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,348 | 49.4 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,296 | 50.9 |
| 1999 | 74 | #1,527 | 38.5 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,618 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,749 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 54 | #1,736 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,437 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,743 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,987 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,784 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,613 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,800 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,462 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,948 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,320 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yash a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yash has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yash: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yash, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,764 Americans ever recorded as Yash. The median Yash alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,141 people named Yash (48 women and girls, 4,093 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 144 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 819 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yash born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,197 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,558 | 0.7× |
Where Yash is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yash is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yash with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yash
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 Yash and names like it
- Compare Yash and IziahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYash peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yash since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Yash: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Yash.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yash alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.