In 2025, 22 US boys were named Yida, making it the 4,700th most common boys’ name of the year, up 180 places from #4,880 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 21 boys named Yida in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,562, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #5,735 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yida in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 334 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 140 babies named Yida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US boys were named Yida; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.