Boys' name · since 2015
Yiddy
Yiddy has 62 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #20,718 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #6,401 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 62
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yiddy currently ranks #6401 among boys' names in America, with 62 babies recorded since 2015.
Yiddy has 62 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #6401 as of the latest data, more common than 54% of boys, 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 2015 to 2025.
- #20,718 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #6,401 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 62 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yiddy ranks #20,718 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,401 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 62 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #20,718 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #6,401 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 62
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yiddy's 62 recorded births place it above 54.44% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by New York.
How Yiddy compares
62 19th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys 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
Yiddy's all-time total is 83% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Yiddy | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 62 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 34 | 22,252 |
Yiddy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Yiddy splits its recorded history at 2022: 65% of all births land in the more recent half, 35% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2015 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Yiddy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Yiddy by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (47 births, 76% of the file).
2020s was Yiddy's strongest decade.
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.
Yiddy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 15
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
47 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 47 births (76% of all-time use).
Yiddy by state
Where Yiddy concentrates geographically, total births since 2015
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 27 | 43.5% |
27 of 62 births nationwide.
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- New York records the most Yiddys (27 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2015–2025 (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 Yiddy 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.