In 2025, 23 US boys were named Yichen, making it the 4,535th most common boys’ name of the year, down 643 places from #3,892 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 29 boys named Yichen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,892, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #8,719 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Yichen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #11,051, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10, in 2012. For comparison, it was #16,341 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yichen in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 306 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 152 babies named Yichen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US boys were named Yichen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.