Yer — unisex name

What the Data Says About Yer

The Social Security Administration has registered 572 babies named Yer between 1980 and 2002, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yer currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 49 babies received it in a single year. Yer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yer performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 283 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yer shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 256 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Yer in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yer 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 572 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.