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.
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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 105,699 of them was named Yu, which outranked 64.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,129Zakira18
- #6,129Zola18
- #6,129Zuleima18
- #6,392Yu17
- #6,392Aaleyah17
- #6,392Abcde17
- #6,392Abegail17
- #6,698Aalliyah16
- #6,698Abbegail16
- #6,698Abi16
Tied with 305 names at #6,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 114,207 of them was named Yu, which outranked 64.0% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).