Yichen — #3867 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yichen

The Social Security Administration has registered 208 babies named Yichen between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yichen currently holds the #3867 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Yichen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 75 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yichen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yichen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Yichen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yichen 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 208 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.