Yash
Yash is a boy's name that peaked in 2002, when it was the 1,003rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,641st. About 2,700 Yashes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Yash
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,764
- Estimated living today
- 2,700
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 1,003rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,641st
- First recorded
- 1975
How old the living Yashes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,764 babies given the name since 1975, about 2,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yashs
- Yash Chopra (1932–2012)Indian film director, script writer and film producer
- Yash Pal (1926–2017)Indian physicist
People named Yash with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yash is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yash is most concentrated in New Jersey (7.3×), California (3.0×), Illinois (1.9×), Texas (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular boys’ names the year Yash peaked:
Yash elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Yash | 896 | 557th |
| France boys | Yash | 50 | 5,136th |
| Switzerland boys | Yash | 19 | 1,079th |
| Ireland boys | Yash | 6 | 730th |
| Poland boys | Yash | 5 birth registrations | 510th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Yash: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Yash | 18 | 0.001% | 823rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Yash | 1 | 0.000% | 920th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Yash against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.