Yaw — #7335 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yaw

The Social Security Administration has registered 398 babies named Yaw between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yaw currently holds the #7335 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yaw performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yaw shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yaw in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yaw 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 398 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.