Girls' name · since 2021
Yemi
Yemi has 17 recorded births since 2021 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #48,297 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
17 girls have been named Yemi since 2021, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Yemi has 17 recorded births among girls since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2024.
- #48,297 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 17 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yemi ranks #48,297 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 17 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #48,297 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 17
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yemi's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Yemi's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Yemi splits its recorded history at 2023: 65% of all births land in the more recent half, 35% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2024 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2021 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Yemi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2024
- Peak year (2021)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
Yemi by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (17 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Yemi's strongest decade.
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Yemi births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 17 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Yemi: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~3 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2021–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yemi draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.