Yifan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yifan

The Social Security Administration has registered 97 babies named Yifan between 2010 and 2023, spanning 14 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yifan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Yifan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2011.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yifan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 83 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Yifan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yifan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yifan 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 97 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.