Yee
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #9,802 · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #6,839
Given to boys 58.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1881 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 281since 1880
Yee over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1904 | — | #1,205 | 5 | |
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| 1900 | — | #1,162 | 6 | |
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| 1897 | — | #852 | 7 | |
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| 1895 | — | #1,079 | 5 | |
| 1894 | — | #857 | 7 | |
| 1893 | — | #836 | 7 | |
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| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
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| 1882 | — | #837 | 6 | |
| 1881 | — | #781 | 6 | |
| 1880 | — | #809 | 6 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Yee was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1892, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yee is popular in 1897
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Yee
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
- Biggest jump: 28 spots in 1881 (#809 → #781)
- Biggest drop: 222 spots in 1895 (#857 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1881 at #781 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1880–1882
- Highest: 1 in 16,045 boys born in 1893 were named Yee (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 218,222 boys born in 2000 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #781 in 1881, was only 1 in 16,789 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.8% of all boys named Yee (109) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | #781 (1881) | #841 |
| 1890s | 26 | #836 (1893) | #906 |
| 1900s | 11 | #1,162 (1900) | #1,184 |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 103 | #2,779 (1981) | #4,107 |
| 1990s | 109 | #3,325 (1991) | #5,591 |
| 2000s | 9 | #6,839 (2000) | #6,839 |
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.
Yee in 1897
Top boys' names in 1897
More about 1897
boys
112,757 boys got a published name in 1897; 1 in 16,108 of them was named Yee, which outranked 30.7% of the 1,229 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).