Yang
Last seen for girls in 2012 at #16,869 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to boys 86.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 291since 1981
Yang 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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | — | ||
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| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #9,756 | 7 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,617 | 10 | |
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| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | #6,676 | 12 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #8,864 | 8 |
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| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
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| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
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| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #8,456 | 7 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yang! It came in at #4,153, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yang
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1983 at #2,912 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 97,811 boys born in 1990 were named Yang (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,912 in 1983, was only 1 in 119,504 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all boys named Yang (94) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 87 | #2,912 (1983) | #4,572 |
| 1990s | 94 | #2,952 (1990) | #5,776 |
| 2000s | 42 | #6,715 (2003) | #9,122 |
| 2010s | 62 | #6,676 (2015) | #8,605 |
| 2020s | 6 | #10,938 (2024) | #10,938 |
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.
Yang in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 119,504 of them was named Yang, which outranked 60.3% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,787Yves16
- #2,787Zavier16
- #2,787Zeth16
- #2,912Yang15
- #2,912Adriana15
- #2,912Adriano15
- #2,912Agustine15
- #3,071Abdulaziz14
- #3,071Adel14
- #3,071Adron14
Tied with 158 names at #2,912; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.