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Yoyo

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Yoyo has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2014, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Yoyo, 2024

1 in 557,000

Yoyo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoyo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yoyo means

Yoyo is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* (female given name): From the propensity of female Chinese given names to reduplicate a syllable, resulting in a reduplicated syllable in the coining of an English given name not originating as a Chinese name.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yoyo (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoyo is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 girls were recorded with the name Yoyo between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2014; its best national rank was #9,499 in 2014.

How common is Yoyo?

Yoyo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoyo 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoyo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoyos were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Yoyo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (12)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,499
2014

Spellings of Yoyo

Yoyo is not the most common spelling — Joy is, with 85.3% against Yoyo'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 Yoyo is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoyo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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

Yoyo around the world

Where Yoyo 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
    2005–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010

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

Yoyo 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
—
Best rank ever
#9,499
2014
Peak year
2014
12 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yoyo

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

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Sibling names for Yoyo

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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