How Many People Are Named Yen?
people named Yen are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 573,464 people in the US has this name
Based on 611 babies named Yen in Social Security records from 1975 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
33 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Sino-Vietnamese 安 (yên) meaning "calm, peaceful".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Yen, 92.4% were girls and 7.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 92.8% of the babies were girls then and 90.9% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Yen alive today is about 32 years old, and 62% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 22 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Yen first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1982, to 33 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Yen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,829, in 1982.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #2,829 (1982) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #3,567 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Yen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Yen were born in California than in any other state: about 108 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yen was given about 6.2 times as often in California.
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