Yves
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 35 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,202since 1916
Yves over time
Rank among boys' names. Yves has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #10,107 | 9 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | — | #6,828 | 12 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,247 | 24 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,296 | 13 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,466 | 22 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,789 | 15 | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | — | #6,001 | 14 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,451 | 14 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,107 | 23 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,109 | 22 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,501 | 18 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | — | #2,255 | 27 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,400 | 23 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,057 | 28 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,672 | 37 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,036 | 26 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,207 | 23 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,661 | 35 | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #2,003 | 27 |
| 1979 | — | #2,310 | 21 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,361 | 19 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,113 | 22 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,450 | 17 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,934 | 23 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,203 | 18 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,914 | 19 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,084 | 15 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,713 | 22 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,242 | 14 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yves! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yves
- 158 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #5,399)
- 897 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #5,399)
- 600 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1981 at #1,661 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 49,952 boys born in 1985 were named Yves (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,661 in 1981, was only 1 in 51,176 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.0% of all boys named Yves (264) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,897 (1916) | #3,897 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,201 (1926) | #4,201 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,776 (1932) | #3,776 |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,350 |
| 1950s | 56 | #2,663 (1959) | #3,223 |
| 1960s | 149 | #1,713 (1962) | #2,219 |
| 1970s | 175 | #1,934 (1974) | #2,414 |
| 1980s | 264 | #1,661 (1981) | #2,186 |
| 1990s | 178 | #2,628 (1990) | #3,977 |
| 2000s | 126 | #4,204 (2000) | #6,214 |
| 2010s | 131 | #4,466 (2017) | #6,672 |
| 2020s | 96 | #4,247 (2021) | #5,818 |
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.
Yves in 1951
Top boys' names in 1951
More about 1951
boys
1,882,837 boys got a published name in 1951; 1 in 268,977 of them was named Yves, which outranked 27.9% of the 4,253 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).