In 2025, 77 US boys were named Yug, making it the 1,991st most common boys’ name of the year, up 401 places from #2,392 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 59 boys named Yug in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,991, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #3,226 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yug in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 5 babies. In all, 712 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 322 babies named Yug.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 441 US boys were named Yug; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yug ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #912 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.