Yiddish Boy Names
Explore names documented in Yiddish naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 34#3,398 | Down 358 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 48#2,692 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 1924 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1950. | 300#826 | Up 204 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1951. | 248#948 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1957. | 167#1,213 | Up 96 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912. | 86#1,846 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1950. | 28#3,914 | Up 457 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 1924 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959. | 44#2,852 | Up 512 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | 27#4,013 | Down 1,001 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1958. | 46#2,781 | Up 224 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1933. | 43#2,888 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1949. | 21#4,854 | Up 2,170 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1958. | 29#3,814 | Up 1,336 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915. | 15#5,867 | Up 3,742 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959. | 23#4,439 | Up 1,963 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990. | 11#7,657 | Up 2,904 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Yiddish-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1952. | 13#6,497 | Up 1,084 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1995. | 9#8,896 | Down 843 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1991. | 9#8,789 | Down 2,560 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912. | —Unranked | — | 1925 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016. | 5#13,830 | new | 2022 | ||
Documented Yiddish usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990. | —Unranked | — | 1990 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.