Yu
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 54.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 14 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 449since 1969
Yu 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
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,262 | 11 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,034 | 11 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | — | #8,040 | 9 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yu! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yu is popular in 1994
No state had 5 or more boys named Yu in 1994, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yu
- 4,106 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #8,243)
- 1,209 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #8,243)
- 203 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1986 at #3,268 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 114,207 boys born in 2002 were named Yu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,268 in 1986, was only 1 in 131,537 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all boys named Yu (109) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 16 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,249 |
| 1980s | 76 | #3,268 (1986) | #4,606 |
| 1990s | 103 | #4,167 (1990) | #5,509 |
| 2000s | 109 | #4,502 (2002) | #7,167 |
| 2010s | 88 | #7,136 (2018) | #8,465 |
| 2020s | 52 | #7,034 (2020) | #8,883 |
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.
Yu in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 148,813 of them was named Yu, which outranked 55.0% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,672Yvonna13
- #6,672Zania13
- #6,672Zoya13
- #7,097Yu12
- #7,097Aalyiah12
- #7,097Aariel12
- #7,097Abelina12
- #7,604Abeni11
- #7,604Abreanna11
- #7,604Adanna11
Tied with 506 names at #7,097; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 148,618 of them was named Yu, which outranked 55.7% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,290Yovany14
- #4,290Zac14
- #4,290Zaccheus14
- #4,537Yu13
- #4,537Abrahim13
- #4,537Ahmir13
- #4,537Ahren13
- #4,803Abhinav12
- #4,803Abigail12
- #4,803Ade12
Tied with 265 names at #4,537; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.