Girls' name · since 1978
Yve
Yve has 15 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1978 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #50,356 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,415 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 1978
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yve currently ranks #15415 among girls' names in America, with 15 babies recorded since 1978.
Yve has 15 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15415 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2025.
- #50,356 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,415 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 15 born since 1978
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yve ranks #50,356 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,415 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 15 born since 1978, peaking in the 2020s.
- #50,356 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,415 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 15
- born since 1978
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yve's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Yve compares
15 5th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Yve's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Yve | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 15 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 5 | 21 | 19,840 |
Yve's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Yve splits its recorded history at 2024: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1978 (5 births).
Yve popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2025
- Peak year (1978)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 48 years of records
Yve by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (10 births, 67% of the file).
2020s was Yve's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Yve births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 10 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Yve: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1978)
Similar record span (~47 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yve draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.