Yu — #12600 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yu

The Social Security Administration has registered 440 babies named Yu between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yu currently holds the #12600 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Yu is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 381 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yu performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Yu shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Yu in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yu 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 440 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.