Girl Names That Start With Y
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 0.53%
- vs 0.57% in 2000
- Names in use
- 294
- 1,209 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2007
- at 0.75% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92#2,063 | Down 321 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 49#3,248 | Down 618 rank positions in five years | 1969 | |||
| 128#1,630 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 103#1,901 | Down 417 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 269#959 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 196#1,185 | Up 298 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 422#672 | Down 167 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 38#3,899 | Down 761 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 343#794 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 126#1,651 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 59#2,894 | Down 1,684 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 585#507 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 95#2,016 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 136#1,560 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 245#1,026 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 121#1,701 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 83#2,237 | Down 397 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 127#1,642 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 48#3,294 | Down 547 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 115#1,768 | Down 236 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 189#1,206 | Up 521 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 139#1,533 | Up 57 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 271#952 | Up 488 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 246#1,021 | Up 330 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 36#4,063 | Down 2,073 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 75#2,409 | Down 347 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 33#4,348 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 56#2,996 | Down 756 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 124#1,672 | Up 332 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 45#3,455 | Down 492 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 134#1,579 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 72#2,483 | Up 1,961 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 107#1,866 | Up 1,193 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 112#1,807 | Up 2,834 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 52#3,129 | Down 500 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 43#3,572 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 33#4,347 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 38#3,900 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 55#3,027 | Up 1,724 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 68#2,582 | Up 1,581 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 37#3,970 | Up 4,412 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 44#3,513 | Up 260 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 35#4,166 | Up 374 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 37#3,971 | Up 1,688 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 46#3,383 | Up 2,457 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 113#1,795 | Up 4,274 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 50#3,210 | Up 1,236 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 143#1,498 | new | 2024 | |||
| 36#4,064 | Up 3,134 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 47#3,340 | Up 11,658 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.