girls:
16 births since 1999
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1989
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
43 births since 1989
#7696 (1st percentile)
The name Ye is the #7,696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1999.
Ye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Ye is available in 8 out of the 34 years between 1989 and 2022 (5 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ye has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (62.8% of all recorded births). In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Ye were boys.
For boys, Ye reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Ye reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ye".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.9% confident that Ye is pronounced as yee, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yeh, at 17.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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