Yuan
Yuan was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,129 among boys’ names; 212 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yuan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yuan?
#6,129 among boys’ names, 2025
Yuan rose from #7,473 in 2015 to #6,129 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 8.8 per million.
19 babies in 2024, the peak
Yuan peaked in 2024, when 19 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,451 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 15 | #6,129 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,630 | 14 | #6,451 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #12,201 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,811 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,181 | 6 | #12,094 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,988 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,926 | 11 | #7,624 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #9,637 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,736 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,280 | 8 | #9,629 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 11 | #7,473 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,466 | 7 | #10,695 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,428 | 8 | #9,684 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #14,199 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,946 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #8,301 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #10,118 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,906 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,527 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #12,083 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,536 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,304 |
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 Yuan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 212 Americans recorded as Yuan, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yuan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yuan, and how old are they?
An estimated 210 Americans named Yuan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 5,921 people named Yuan (3,255 women and girls, 2,666 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40.0 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, Yuan is the fifth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 308 babies (4.9%), again the fifth most given.
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 Yuan
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 Yuan and names like it
- Compare Yuan and YohanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYuan peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yuan since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Yuan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yuan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.