Yoon
Yoon was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yoon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,980, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1984, the peak
Yoon peaked in 1984, when 13 babies were given it (5 boys, #7,327 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,627 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,675 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,980 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,753 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #12,013 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,370 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,533 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,299 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,676 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,410 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,247 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,462 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,202 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,246 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #6,073 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,142 | 5 | #7,327 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,884 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,737 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yoon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 119 Americans recorded as Yoon, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yoon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoon, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Yoon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,628 people named Yoon (1,563 women and girls, 1,065 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,411 babies since 1880, Yoon is the seventh most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 308 babies recorded by SSA was a Yoon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yoon
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 Yoon and names like it
- Compare Yoon and YohanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sYoon peaked in 1984.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Yoon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yoon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.