Ye — boys' name
27 babies named Ye in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Ye was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Ye in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ye
The Social Security Administration has registered 27 babies named Ye between 1989 and 2022, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Ye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 16 additional births since 1999.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ye performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ye shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ye 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 27 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.
Ye at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ye popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1989
- Peak year (2015)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
27 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 7 births in a single year.
Ye popularity over time — girls
16 total births recorded since 1999 (Ye as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Ye accounts for 37% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ye by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 12 births that decade — 44% of Ye's all-time total
Ye decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ye's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.