Meaning not yet researched.
Yash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,007 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,007 in 2002; #2,675 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yash in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,675 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,007.
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Yash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,007 in 2002 · most boys in one year: 155 (2002).
In 2025, 49 US boys were named Yash, making it the 2,675th most common boys’ name of the year, down 579 places from #2,096 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 72 boys named Yash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,007, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #2,166 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yash in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 2,764 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,295 babies named Yash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 622 US boys were named Yash; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,859 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yash ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,197 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Yaz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yaz (41).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yash in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,197 | #1,531 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,558 | #2,723 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 49 | #2,675 |
| 2024 | — | — | 72 | #2,096 |
| 2023 | — | — | 63 | #2,274 |
| 2022 | — | — | 66 | #2,216 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,409 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,654 |
| 2019 | — | — | 77 | #1,934 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,471 |
| 2017 | — | — | 64 | #2,153 |
| 2016 | — | — | 73 | #1,990 |
| 2015 | — | — | 64 | #2,166 |
| 2014 | — | — | 72 | #1,998 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,042 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,598 |
| 2011 | — | — | 85 | #1,737 |
| 2010 | — | — | 111 | #1,480 |
| 2009 | — | — | 130 | #1,340 |
| 2008 | — | — | 129 | #1,342 |
| 2007 | — | — | 129 | #1,326 |
| 2006 | — | — | 127 | #1,305 |
| 2005 | — | — | 149 | #1,111 |
| 2004 | — | — | 136 | #1,158 |
| 2003 | — | — | 144 | #1,081 |
| 2002 | — | — | 155 | #1,007 |
| 2001 | — | — | 96 | #1,352 |
| 2000 | — | — | 100 | #1,299 |
| 1999 | — | — | 74 | #1,530 |
| 1998 | — | — | 65 | #1,621 |
| 1997 | — | — | 56 | #1,752 |
| 1996 | — | — | 54 | #1,739 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,442 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,749 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,993 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,792 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,620 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,807 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,469 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,955 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,322 |
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).