Yamin

#4,532 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jamin

Yamin has been given to 314 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,532 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Yamin, 2025

1 in 144,000

Yamin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yamin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jamin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yamin means

Yamin is a form of Jamin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yamin → Jamin. The family’s meaning is “right hand or right side”, recorded in English with the source elements yamin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jamin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 314 boys were recorded with the name Yamin between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,382 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,017 in 2020 to #4,532 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,980 in 2015 to #4,532 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.

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How common is Yamin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,532
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yamin 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yamin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yamins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yamin was born before 2016 — so the typical Yamin is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
314
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Yamin 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
+31
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,485
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,448
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2014 (23)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,382
2014

Spellings of Yamin

Yamin is not the most common spelling — Gavin is, with 20.8% against Yamin's 0.03%.

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 Yamin is used

Across 1910–2025, Yamin was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,473,717 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Yamin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yamin around the world

Where Yamin 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
    1996–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #892
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2021
    #1,826
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yamin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,532
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,485
Best rank ever
#4,382
2014
Peak year
2014
23 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
314
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Yamin

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

Sibling names for Yamin

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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