Yates
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1923 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 517since 1914
Yates over time
Rank among boys' names. Yates has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
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| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,862 | 7 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #2,656 | 8 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,719 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,393 | 10 |
| 1933 | #2,738 | 8 |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,059 | 16 |
| 1920 | #2,231 | 14 |
| 1919 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,457 | 8 |
| 1913 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Yates! It came in at #2,457, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Yates is popular in 1933
No state had 5 or more boys named Yates in 1933, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yates
- 484 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #6,143)
- 163 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #6,143)
- 2,601 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1923 at #2,020 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 68,506 boys born in 1923 were named Yates (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 19.7% of all boys named Yates (102) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 54 | #2,423 (1917) | #2,709 |
| 1920s | 77 | #2,020 (1923) | #3,128 |
| 1930s | 65 | #2,393 (1934) | #2,995 |
| 1940s | 36 | #2,656 (1941) | #2,925 |
| 1950s | 17 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,604 |
| 1960s | 10 | #3,966 (1967) | #4,002 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,892 |
| 1980s | 20 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,711 |
| 1990s | 7 | #6,670 (1992) | #6,670 |
| 2000s | 45 | #8,299 (2005) | #10,703 |
| 2010s | 102 | #5,555 (2016) | #7,106 |
| 2020s | 73 | #5,659 (2024) | #6,911 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yates in 1933
Top boys' names in 1933
More about 1933
boys
991,524 boys got a published name in 1933; 1 in 123,941 of them was named Yates, which outranked 34.1% of the 4,156 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,542Woodard9
- #2,542York9
- #2,542Yukio9
- #2,738Yates8
- #2,738Acey8
- #2,738Aden8
- #2,738Aldean8
- #3,004Abelino7
- #3,004Abundio7
- #3,004Adelaido7
Tied with 265 names at #2,738; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.