Yeni
Yeni was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,191 among girls’ names; 469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yeni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yeni?
#17,191 among girls’ names, 2025
Yeni fell from #16,331 in 2015 to #17,191 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
24 babies in 2003, the peak
Yeni peaked in 2003, when 24 girls were given it, #5,226 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,191 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,613 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,126 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,172 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,331 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,534 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,435 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,488 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,735 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,423 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13 | #9,454 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,109 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,130 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,786 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,594 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,226 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,381 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,308 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,483 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,783 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,242 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,728 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,055 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,749 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,569 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,197 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,049 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,390 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,482 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,659 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,370 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,304 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,750 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,546 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,131 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,453 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,365 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,797 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,379 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,050 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,448 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,601 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yeni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yeni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yeni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yeni, and how old are they?
An estimated 460 Americans named Yeni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,974 people named Yeni (2,947 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.8 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 Yeni born?
The states with the most babies named Yeni are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 108 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Yeni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yeni is most over-represented in California: since 1976 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Yeni 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,460 babies since 1880, Yeni is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 392 babies (1.3%), the sixth most given that year.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yeni
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yeni and names like it
- Compare Yeni and YunaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYeni peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yeni since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Yeni.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yeni alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.