Yee

Last seen for girls in 1997 at #9,802 · Last seen for boys in 2000 at #6,839
Given to boys 58.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1881 · 6 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
281
since 1880

Yee over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #4,884, 1983peak #781, 1881girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2000#6,8399
1999#7,8747
1998#8,4796
1997#9,8028#6,1009
1996#11,8076#6,4968
1995#7,04112#5,9289
1994#8,8049#4,53713
1993#10,5887#5,00211
1992#6,00815#4,56412
1991#6,58813#3,32518
1990#5,54916#3,60716
1989#6,95511#3,20518
1988#7,6919#6,4266
1987#6,78810#3,95911
1986#4,96415#4,8538
1985#9,3076#2,94216
1984#5,89911#3,70111
1983#4,88414#5,4846
1982#5,91111
1981#6,32310#2,77916
1980#9,0956#3,61511
1979#7,3138
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1904#1,2055
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1894#8577
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1880#8096
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Yee was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1892, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yee
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2000
  • Biggest jump: 28 spots in 1881 (#809#781)
  • Biggest drop: 222 spots in 1895 (#857#1,079)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #781 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1880–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,045
  • Highest: 1 in 16,045 boys born in 1893 were named Yee (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 218,222 boys born in 2000 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #781 in 1881, was only 1 in 16,789 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 38.8% of all boys named Yee (109) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1996
  • Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s23#781 (1881)#841
1890s26#836 (1893)#906
1900s11#1,162 (1900)#1,184
1910s0
1920s0
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s103#2,779 (1981)#4,107
1990s109#3,325 (1991)#5,591
2000s9#6,839 (2000)#6,839

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.

Yee in 1989

girls
#6,955
11 births · 1 in 167,596 girls
boys
#3,205
18 births · 1 in 111,163 boys

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #6,955Yee11

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #3,205Yee18
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 167,596 of them was named Yee, which outranked 52.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yee
  1. #6,531Yoko12
  2. #6,531Yu12
  3. #6,531Zandria12
  4. #6,955Yee11
  5. #6,955Aasha11
  6. #6,955Abbygail11
  7. #6,955Abeni11
  8. #7,449Aaren10
  9. #7,449Addy10
  10. #7,449Adella10

Tied with 493 names at #6,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 9,523Audriana#10,386#863
  2. 7,504Martika#8,391#887
  3. 6,932Audrianna#7,691#759
  4. 3,972Elizabet#4,496#524
  5. 1,772Katherin#2,489#717
Fallers
  1. 539Diandra#905#1,444
  2. 524Taja#720#1,244
  3. 455Jonathan#999#1,454
  4. 445Katarina#960#1,405
  5. 397Caryn#816#1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 111,163 of them was named Yee, which outranked 65.3% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yee
  1. #3,094Valente19
  2. #3,094Zackariah19
  3. #3,094Zebadiah19
  4. #3,205Yee18
  5. #3,205Abdulrahman18
  6. #3,205Alaric18
  7. #3,205Alastair18
  8. #3,325Adarius17
  9. #3,325Ahren17
  10. #3,325Alonza17

Tied with 119 names at #3,205; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1989