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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,696 · 1 in 21,655
Best ever in a state: #1,087 in New York, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,696 | 5 | 1 in 21,655 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 97,255 of them was named Yu, which outranked 67.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,999Zachary20
- #5,999Zuleima20
- #5,999Zyria20
- #6,245Yu19
- #6,245Aamina19
- #6,245Aamiyah19
- #6,245Aaniya19
- #6,528Aaleyah18
- #6,528Abbegail18
- #6,528Abryanna18
Tied with 282 names at #6,245; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 221,923 of them was named Yu, which outranked 42.9% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,096Zidane10
- #7,096Ziyan10
- #7,096Zyere10
- #7,640Yu9
- #7,640Aashish9
- #7,640Abdelaziz9
- #7,640Abdoulie9
- #8,299Abass8
- #8,299Abdulai8
- #8,299Abukar8
Tied with 658 names at #7,640; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.