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Yaman

#1,698 in 2025Boys' name

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Yaman has been given to 420 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #1,698 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Yaman, 2025

1 in 34,200

Yaman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaman: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaman means

Yaman means “bad”, associated with yaman.

Origin, language, and formation

Yaman is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Yaman is pronounced /jaˈman/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 420 boys were recorded with the name Yaman between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,698 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,688 in 2020 to #1,698 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,959 in 2015 to #1,698 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yaman?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 17,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,698
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yamans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaman was born before 2022 — so the typical Yaman is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
63.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
420
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Choose a decade

2020s — 63.8% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Yaman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+397
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,990
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+12,261
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
19.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (97)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,698
2025

Spellings of Yaman

Yaman is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 35.4% against Yaman's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yaman is used

Across 2016–2025, Yaman was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 58,666 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 20,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Yaman around the world

Where Yaman ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #697
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #432
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #1,181
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yaman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,698
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,990
Best rank ever
#1,698
2025
Peak year
2025
97 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
420
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Yaman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yaman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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