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 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 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 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 356,171 of them was named Yang, which outranked 15.0% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,085 names at #11,798; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 119,643 of them was named Yang, which outranked 62.3% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,079Vittorio17
- #3,079Zackory17
- #3,079Zeth17
- #3,203Yang16
- #3,203Abdel16
- #3,203Alma16
- #3,203Alphonse16
- #3,350Aden15
- #3,350Adrienne15
- #3,350Albino15
Tied with 146 names at #3,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.