Yuan — #6284 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yuan

The Social Security Administration has registered 160 babies named Yuan between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yuan currently holds the #6284 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Yuan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yuan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yuan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yuan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yuan 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 160 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.