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Yanky: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,612 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,612 in 2022; #3,748 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yanky in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,748 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #3,612.
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Yanky: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,612 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 32 (2022).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Yanky, making it the 3,748th most common boys’ name of the year, up 40 places from #3,788 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 30 boys named Yanky in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,612, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #10,593 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yanky in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 5 babies. In all, 258 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 158 babies named Yanky.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 197 US boys were named Yanky; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 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).