In 2025, 97 US boys were named Yaman, making it the 1,698th most common boys’ name of the year, up 397 places from #2,095 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 72 boys named Yaman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,698, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #13,965 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaman in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 8 babies. In all, 420 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 268 babies named Yaman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 342 US boys were named Yaman; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yaman ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #677 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.