In 2025, 56 US girls were named Yocheved, making it the 2,996th most common girls’ name of the year, down 610 places from #2,386 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 77 girls named Yocheved in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,144, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #2,430 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yocheved in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 8 babies. In all, 2,410 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 691 babies named Yocheved.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 703 US girls were named Yocheved; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yocheved ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #371 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.