Young — boys' name

What the Data Says About Young

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,234 babies named Young between 1880 and 2022, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Young currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Young is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 530 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Young performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 320 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Young shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 181 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kansas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Young in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Young 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 2,234 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.