Girls' name · since 2020

Yennefer

Since 2020, U.S. Social Security records show 51 babies named Yennefer, peaking in 2022. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.

#34,920 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,013 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
51
born since 2020
2020s
peak decade

51 babies have been named Yennefer since 2020, making it today's #13013 girls' name.

Yennefer has 51 recorded births among girls since 2020, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13013 as of the latest data, more common than 25% of girls, 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 2020 to 2025.

  • #34,920 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,013 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 51 born since 2020
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yennefer ranks #34,920 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,013 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 51 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.

#34,920 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,013 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
51
born since 2020
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.7%
Yennefer vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Yennefer's 51 recorded births place it above 51.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Yennefer compares

51 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Yennefer's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Yennefer Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 51 376 567,345
Peak-year births 13 21 19,840

Yennefer's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Yennefer's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 41% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 59%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Yennefer popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2022)
13
Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
468101214 202020212022202320242025 7

Yennefer by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (51 births, 100% of the file).

2020s was Yennefer's strongest decade.

51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Yennefer births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 51 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Yennefer?
51 babies have been named Yennefer since 2020. All-time, it sits at #34,920 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #13,013 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 2022 with 13 births.
Where does Yennefer sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yennefer ranks #34,920 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,013 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Yennefer most popular?
Yennefer was most popular in the 2020s decade with 51 total births. The single peak year was 2022.
How long has the name Yennefer been used?
Yennefer has been recorded in Social Security data since 2020, spanning 6 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Yennefer?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Yenifer, Yen, Yennifer, Yeni, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Yennefer: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

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, 2020–2025 (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 Yennefer 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.