Yue — #8247 US unisex name
131 babies named Yue in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 53% of names given to girls today.
51% of everyone ever named Yue was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Yue in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yue
The Social Security Administration has registered 131 babies named Yue between 2002 and 2024, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yue currently holds the #8247 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Yue is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 1982.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yue performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yue shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yue in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yue 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 131 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.
Yue at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yue popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2002
- Peak year (2021)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
Currently ranks #8247 among girls.
131 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 15 births in a single year.
Yue popularity over time — boys
86 total births recorded since 1982 (Yue as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Yue accounts for 40% of total recorded use across both genders.
Yue by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 67 births that decade — 51% of Yue's all-time total
Yue decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 59 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Yue's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Yue by state
Where Yue concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 7.6% |
10 of 131 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 7.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 7.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.