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Yihan

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One or art, talent, craft

Yihan has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.

Babies named Yihan, 2018

1 in 586,000

Yihan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2018, Yihan went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20102018

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.

Yihan: meaning, origin, and history

One or art, talent, craft

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yihan means

Yihan means “one or art, talent, craft”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yihan is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /i.xan/ for Yihan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 48 girls were recorded with the name Yihan between 2010 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2016; its best national rank was #11,743 in 2016.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Yihan between 2013 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2013; its best national rank was #12,055 in 2014.

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 Yihan?

Yihan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yihan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yihan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yihans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yihan was born before 2014 — so the typical Yihan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
48
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2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Yihan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (9)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,743
2016

Spellings of Yihan

Yihan is not the most common spelling — Milan is, with 24.7% against Yihan's 0.12%.

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 Yihan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Yihan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Yihan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Yihan is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Yihan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Yihan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yihan around the world

Where Yihan 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.

  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yihan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,743
2016
Peak year
2016
9 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
48
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#12,055
2014
Peak year
2013
6 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yihan

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

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Sibling names for Yihan

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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