Yee
Yee was last recorded in 2000, when 9 babies were given it; 483 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,385, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1990, the peak
Yee peaked in 1990, when 32 babies were given it (16 boys, #3,768 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #7,385 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,676 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,598 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,806 | 9 | #6,594 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,481 | 8 | #7,115 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,498 | 9 | #6,389 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,568 | 13 | #4,790 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,762 | 11 | #5,345 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,301 | 12 | #4,853 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,965 | 18 | #3,448 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 16 | #5,827 | 16 | #3,768 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,435 | 18 | #3,318 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,374 | 6 | #7,242 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,339 | 11 | #4,227 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,183 | 8 | #5,317 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,657 | 16 | #3,065 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,287 | 11 | #3,917 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,143 | 6 | #6,218 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,363 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,796 | 16 | #2,894 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,377 | 11 | #3,836 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,048 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,311 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 5 | #1,394 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 6 | #1,307 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 7 | #940 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 5 | #1,240 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 7 | #951 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 7 | #905 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 5 | #1,095 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 6 | #941 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 6 | #864 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 6 | #907 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 483 Americans recorded as Yee, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yee, and how old are they?
An estimated 407 Americans named Yee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,418 people named Yee (1,444 women and girls, 974 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.9 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.
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 Yee born?
The states with the most babies named Yee are California, Wisconsin and Minnesota, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 124 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Wisconsin | 11 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Yee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yee is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Yee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,907 babies since 1880, Yee is the third most given (25% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Yee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Yee and names like it
- Compare Yee and YuBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYee peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yee since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Yee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.