Yocheved
Yocheved was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,996 among girls’ names; 2,410 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,370 Americans named Yocheved and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yocheved by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yocheved?
#2,996 among girls’ names, 2025
Yocheved fell from #2,430 in 2015 to #2,996 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 42.6 to 34.8 per million.
89 babies in 2012, the peak
Yocheved peaked in 2012, when 89 girls were given it, #2,144 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,996 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,386 | 47.5 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,672 | 41.1 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,638 | 40.9 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,556 | 42.1 |
| 2020 | 81 | #2,240 | 50.1 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,727 | 37.5 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,273 | 47.6 |
| 2017 | 72 | #2,507 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,537 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #2,430 | 42.6 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,919 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,934 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,144 | 50.5 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,450 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,492 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,510 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,052 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,477 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,222 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,119 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,122 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,952 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,775 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,249 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,731 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,044 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,064 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,541 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,935 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,016 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,529 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,150 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,860 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,652 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,149 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #4,010 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,638 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,253 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,273 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,935 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,990 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,684 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,777 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,338 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,503 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,048 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,922 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,232 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,957 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,162 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,758 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,966 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,296 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,538 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,815 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,964 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,187 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,841 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,520 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,258 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,945 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,587 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yocheved a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yocheved has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yocheved: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yocheved, and how old are they?
2,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,410 Americans ever recorded as Yocheved. The median Yocheved alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,801 people named Yocheved (1,791 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,984 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 171 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 474 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 812 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 891 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yocheved born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #657 | 9.3× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #371 | 7.4× |
Where Yocheved is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yocheved is most over-represented in New York: since 1953 it was given 9.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yocheved with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yocheved
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 Yocheved and names like it
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Yocheved.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yocheved alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.