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Yamen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,310 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yamen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,310 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yamen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,310 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 36 (2025).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Yamen, making it the 3,310th most common boys’ name of the year, up 581 places from #3,891 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 29 boys named Yamen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,310, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #4,074 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yamen in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 6 babies. In all, 353 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 184 babies named Yamen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 244 US boys were named Yamen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).