Yilin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Yilin

The Social Security Administration has registered 94 babies named Yilin between 2008 and 2023, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yilin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Yilin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yilin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 55 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yilin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yilin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yilin 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 94 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.