Yug
Yug was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,991 among boys’ names; 712 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yug by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yug?
#1,991 among boys’ names, 2025
Yug rose from #3,225 in 2015 to #1,991 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 45.1 per million.
77 babies in 2025, the peak
Yug peaked in 2025, when 77 boys were given it, #1,991 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 59 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,991 | 45.1 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,392 | 34.2 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,691 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,789 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,237 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,199 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,254 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,883 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,321 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,624 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,225 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 26 | #4,004 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,057 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,365 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,948 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,991 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,028 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,532 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,425 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #12,018 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,273 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,716 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yug a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yug has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yug: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yug, and how old are they?
An estimated 706 Americans named Yug and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 452 people named Yug (2 women and girls, 450 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Yug
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 Yug and names like it
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