Yian
Yian is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 26 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,887 among girls’ names and #4,134 among boys’, #7,263 among all names counting both); 171 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yian?
#4,134 among boys’ names, 2025
Yian entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,134 in 2025.
35 babies in 2025, the peak
Yian peaked in 2025, when 35 babies were given it (26 boys, #4,134 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 17 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,887 | 26 | #4,134 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,205 | 17 | #5,646 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,128 | 17 | #5,653 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #7,237 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,568 | 12 | #7,073 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 9 | #8,700 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,708 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #18,052 | 9 | #8,786 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #14,182 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,695 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #9,598 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 5 | #14,164 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #14,267 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 171 Americans recorded as Yian, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yian, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Yian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 469 people named Yian (264 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 54 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.7 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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,411 babies since 1880, Yian is the sixth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 308 babies (11%), the third 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 Yian
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 Yian and names like it
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