Yogi

#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births

Peak · boys
1956 · 9 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
232
since 1953

Yogi over time

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Rank among boys' names. Yogi has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201958peak #2,798, 1956boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#8,3129
2023#7,28911
2022#8,9908
2021#6,33513
2020#5,98014
2019#5,15318
2018#6,03614
2017#10,7756
2016#7,60510
2015#8,7448
2014#12,1085
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2011#9,6007
2010#6,35913
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2004#11,3565
2003#9,5816
2002#10,6675
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First appearance
1953

The first year at least five boys were named Yogi! It came in at #3,425, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1954–1955, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Yogi
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,118 spots since 2024 (#8,312#7,194)
  • 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980#7,194)
  • 1,550 spots since 2015 (#8,744#7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1953
  • Peaked 1956 at #2,798 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1957, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 99,679
  • Highest: 1 in 99,679 boys born in 2019 were named Yogi (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,798 in 1956, was only 1 in 235,034 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.9% of all boys named Yogi (81) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s29#2,798 (1956)#3,205
1960s10#4,033 (1962)#4,049
1970s0
1980s5#7,905 (1989)#7,905
1990s15#8,700 (1993)#8,838
2000s26#9,581 (2003)#10,901
2010s81#5,153 (2019)#8,298
2020s66#5,980 (2020)#7,350

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.

Yogi in 1958

boys
#3,559
6 births · 1 in 353,735 boys

Top boys' names in 1958

  1. #1Michael90,604
  2. #2David82,681
  3. #3James78,774
  4. #4Robert77,338
  5. #5John76,057
  6. #6William54,254
  7. #7Mark52,698
  8. #8Richard50,007
  9. #9Thomas42,088
  10. #10Steven32,968
  11. #3,559Yogi6
More about 1958

boys

2,122,409 boys got a published name in 1958; 1 in 353,735 of them was named Yogi, which outranked 20.9% of the 4,502 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yogi
  1. #3,275Willliam7
  2. #3,275Wwlliam7
  3. #3,275Yehuda7
  4. #3,559Yogi6
  5. #3,559Abdul6
  6. #3,559Abelino6
  7. #3,559Abie6
  8. #3,944Addis5
  9. #3,944Adger5
  10. #3,944Adolpho5

Tied with 384 names at #3,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1957
Risers
  1. 742Wayde#1,364#622
  2. 568Maverick#1,364#796
  3. 516Darren#897#381
  4. 435Tobin#1,250#815
  5. 406Dion#928#522
Fallers
  1. 388Claud#957#1,345
  2. 349Ritchie#823#1,172
  3. 333Levon#944#1,277
  4. 320Weston#957#1,277
  5. 297Parker#925#1,222

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

See the top 100 for 1958