Yen vs Yenifer
American parents have registered 1,169 Yenifers since 1880, against 611 Yens. Yenifer is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Yen Yenifer
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Yenifer for 33 years and Yen for 17 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Yen | Yenifer | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 611 | 1,169 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 80 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 1,200 |
| Median age today | 35 | 22 |
| Peak year | 1982 | 2006 |
| Best rank | 2,770th girls | 2,353rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 6,838th |
| First recorded | 1975 | 1989 |
| Girls / boys | 564 / 47 | 1,169 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Yens alive today are over 35; half the Yenifers are over 22. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Yen California (8.4×), Texas (2.0×)
- Yenifer Texas (4.1×), California (3.9×), Georgia (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yen and Yenifer.