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Yeneisy vs Yeng

American parents have registered 524 Yengs since 1880, against 33 Yeneisys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yeneisy against Yeng, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yeneisy Yeng

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 28 years in which either name was published, Yeng for 26 years and Yeneisy for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yeneisy Yeng
Total US births 33524
Most in one year 2743
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30510
Median age today 1833
Peak year 20071993
Best rank 5,230th girls2,209th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 20071980
Girls / boys 33 / 098 / 426

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 Yengs alive today are over 33; half the Yeneisys are over 18. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yeneisy and Yeng.