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Yichen

#4,534 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Great, bright or also

Yichen has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #4,534 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.

Babies named Yichen, 2025

1 in 144,000

Yichen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yichen over time

In 2025, Yichen went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20082025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yichen: meaning, origin, and history

Great, bright or also

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yichen means

Yichen means “great, bright or also”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 231 boys were recorded with the name Yichen between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,890 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,437 in 2020 to #4,534 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,714 in 2015 to #4,534 in 2025.

In the United States, 75 girls were recorded with the name Yichen between 2012 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2012; its best national rank was #11,046 in 2020.

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.

How common is Yichen?

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
#4,534
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yichen 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 Yichen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yichens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yichen was born before 2020 — so the typical Yichen is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
231
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2020s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Yichen 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
−644
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+903
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,180
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.3%
Peak was 2024 (29)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,890
2024

Spellings of Yichen

Yichen is not the most common spelling — Michel is, with 97.9% against Yichen's 2.1%.

  • Michel97.9%10,539
  • Yichen2.1%231

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 Yichen is used

Across 1910–2025, Yichen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 357,644 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 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. Yichen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yichen around the world

Where Yichen 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
    2013–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yichen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,534
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 903
Best rank ever
#3,890
2024
Peak year
2024
29 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
231
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,046
2020
Peak year
2012
10 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yichen

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

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Sibling names for Yichen

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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