Yves
Yves is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,891 among girls’ names and #5,596 among boys’, #8,832 among all names counting both); 1,261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Yves and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 19 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yves by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yves mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yves is “a male given name from French”
Unadapted borrowing from French Yves.
/ˈiːv/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yves?
#5,596 among boys’ names, 2025
Yves rose from #6,311 in 2015 to #5,596 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 10.0 per million.
37 babies in 1985, the peak
Yves peaked in 1985, when 37 boys were given it, #1,696 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,596 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,433 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,275 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,240 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,355 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,608 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,154 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,529 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,584 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,041 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,311 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,756 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #8,093 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,288 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,484 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,733 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,293 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,682 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,254 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,707 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,209 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,129 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,241 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,710 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,663 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,377 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,306 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,539 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,657 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,194 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,489 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,207 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,652 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,331 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,821 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,688 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,894 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,298 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,463 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,093 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 37 | #1,696 | 20.0 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,095 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,908 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,267 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,691 | 19.5 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,056 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,376 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,666 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,457 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,175 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,536 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,982 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,853 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,532 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,277 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,278 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,973 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,903 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,349 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,041 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,176 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,046 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,856 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,755 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,319 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,810 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,818 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 9 | #3,029 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,938 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,499 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,337 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,727 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,360 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,677 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,201 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,312 | 4.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,277 | 4.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,831 | 4.5 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,524 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yves a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,261 Americans recorded as Yves, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yves: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yves, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,261 Americans ever recorded as Yves. The median Yves alive today is 37 years old; half are between 19 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 4,543 people named Yves (340 women and girls, 4,203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 102 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 372 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 231 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yves born?
The states with the most babies named Yves are New York, Florida and California, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 229 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 75 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 17 | #2,460 | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yves is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yves is most over-represented in New York: since 1916 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yves with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yves
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 Yves and names like it
- Compare Yves and RustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sYves peaked in 1985.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yves since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Yves: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Yves.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yves alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.