Yen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Yen

The Social Security Administration has registered 564 babies named Yen between 1975 and 2022, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Yen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yen performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 246 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yen 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 564 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.