Yenifer
Yenifer was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,118 among girls’ names; 1,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Yenifer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yenifer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yenifer?
#7,118 among girls’ names, 2025
Yenifer rose from #16,332 in 2015 to #7,118 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 10.0 per million.
80 babies in 2006, the peak
Yenifer peaked in 2006, when 80 girls were given it, #2,374 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,118 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,937 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,620 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,651 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,529 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,946 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,744 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,587 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,905 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,738 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,332 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,104 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,097 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,785 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,837 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,856 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,371 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,263 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,928 | 32.2 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,374 | 42.1 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,047 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,960 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,633 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,305 | 39.5 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,432 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,300 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,364 | 35.5 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,493 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,305 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,754 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,146 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,162 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,515 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,373 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,111 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,228 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,337 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yenifer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yenifer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yenifer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yenifer, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,169 Americans ever recorded as Yenifer. The median Yenifer alive today is 23 years old; half are between 19 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,082 people named Yenifer (2,074 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 183 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 826 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Yenifer born?
The states with the most babies named Yenifer are California, Texas and New York, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 208 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 169 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Yenifer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yenifer is most over-represented in Texas: since 1989 it was given 1.5 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 Yenifer 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,735 babies since 1880, Yenifer is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 28 babies (57%), again the most given.
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 Yenifer
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 Yenifer and names like it
- Compare Yenifer and YenniferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYenifer peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yenifer since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Yenifer.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yenifer alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.