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Yash

#2,675 in 2025Boys' name

Fame, glory

Yash has been given to 2,764 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,675 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Yash, 2025

1 in 67,700

Yash over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yash: meaning, origin, and history

Fame, glory

Sanskrit

What Yash means

Yash means “fame, glory”, associated with yaśa.

Origin, language, and formation

Yash is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,764 boys were recorded with the name Yash between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,006 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,653 in 2020 to #2,675 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,166 in 2015 to #2,675 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 Yash?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,675
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yash 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yash. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yashs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yash was born before 2007 — so the typical Yash is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,764
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (1,295).

Is Yash 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
−579
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−22
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.6%
Peak was 2002 (155)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,006
2002

Spellings of Yash

Yash is not the most common spelling — Cash is, with 13.9% against Yash's 1.4%.

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 Yash is used

Across 2016–2025, Yash was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 27,142 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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.

Yash around the world

Where Yash 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
  • Ireland
    2011–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    2005–2025
    #5,136
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Yash

People whose public names include Yash, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yash by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,675
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 22
Best rank ever
#1,006
2002
Peak year
2002
155 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,764
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Yash

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

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Names with a curve like Yash

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yash, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Yash

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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