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Yemaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,974 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,974 in 2023; #4,541 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yemaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,541 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,974.
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Yemaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,974 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 57 (2023).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Yemaya, making it the 4,541st most common girls’ name of the year, down 847 places from #3,694 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 42 girls named Yemaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,974, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #6,970 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yemaya in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 495 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 269 babies named Yemaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 366 US girls were named Yemaya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,337 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,034 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,652 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,970 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,442 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,930 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,775 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,160 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,218 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,650 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,428 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,601 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,106 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,973 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,581 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,376 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,050 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,837 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,430 | — | — |
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).