Boy Names That Start With Y
Boys' names beginning with Y, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 0.62%
- vs 0.15% in 2000
- Names in use
- 284
- 706 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2025
- at 0.62% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #23
- by 2025 share
How Y has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with Y, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 305#816 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 698#450 | Up 123 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 413#665 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 351#741 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 349#745 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 300#826 | Up 204 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 218#1,025 | Up 80 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 261#911 | Up 139 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 304#818 | Up 194 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 124#1,450 | Up 105 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 455#616 | Up 390 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 103#1,643 | Down 399 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 294#839 | Up 269 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 46#2,794 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 110#1,562 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 153#1,286 | Up 150 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 215#1,033 | Up 199 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 181#1,158 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 83#1,904 | Up 560 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 162#1,240 | Up 145 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 49#2,675 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 225#1,007 | Up 520 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 88#1,825 | Up 243 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 92#1,769 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 190#1,127 | Up 794 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 76#2,005 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 82#1,917 | Up 546 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 158#1,259 | Up 762 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 88#1,824 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 59#2,361 | Down 631 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 64#2,227 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 54#2,514 | Up 67 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 151#1,296 | Up 535 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 55#2,476 | Down 267 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 47#2,762 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 47#2,763 | Up 726 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 67#2,166 | Down 334 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 58#2,386 | Up 1,745 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 82#1,916 | Up 519 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 47#2,761 | Up 507 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 68#2,144 | Up 699 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 77#1,991 | Up 1,208 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 66#2,182 | Up 1,228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 52#2,568 | Up 157 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 68#2,143 | Up 1,268 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,388 | Up 1,177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 50#2,640 | Up 2,047 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,387 | Up 1,262 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 55#2,475 | Up 1,015 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,698 | Up 2,990 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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Y names climbing fastest
Biggest Y names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.