Yee — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yee

The Social Security Administration has registered 281 babies named Yee between 1880 and 2000, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Yee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 202 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Yee in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yee 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 281 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.