Yuma — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yuma

The Social Security Administration has registered 347 babies named Yuma between 1974 and 2023, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yuma currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Yuma is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yuma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 138 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yuma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 52 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Yuma in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yuma 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 347 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.