Yenty
Yenty was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,534 among girls’ names; 206 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yenty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yenty?
#6,534 among girls’ names, 2025
Yenty rose from #19,013 in 2015 to #6,534 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 11.2 per million.
23 babies in 2021, the peak
Yenty peaked in 2021, when 23 girls were given it, #5,564 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,534 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,381 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,906 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,974 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,564 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,838 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,406 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,605 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,757 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,739 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #19,013 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,510 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,771 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,384 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,753 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,359 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,305 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,983 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,205 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yenty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yenty has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yenty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yenty, and how old are they?
An estimated 205 Americans named Yenty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 144 people named Yenty (143 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yenty
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.
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