Yi
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Given to boys 62.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 25 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 304since 1983
Yi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | — | #4,094 | 25 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #5,659 | 15 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,050 | 11 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | — | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #7,271 | 6 |
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| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #5,484 | 6 |
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First appearance
1983
The first year at least five boys were named Yi! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Yi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yi
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 689 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #6,143)
- 163 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #6,143)
- 397 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
35 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2018 at #4,094 (25 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 72,646
- Highest: 1 in 72,646 boys born in 2018 were named Yi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 42.4% of all boys named Yi (129) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2011
- Mostly girls until 2010, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #5,484 (1983) | #5,900 |
| 1990s | 49 | #5,660 (1992) | #7,357 |
| 2000s | 37 | #7,831 (2003) | #8,854 |
| 2010s | 129 | #4,094 (2018) | #6,990 |
| 2020s | 78 | #5,874 (2022) | #6,469 |
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.
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