girls:
70 births since 2012
#5646 (1st percentile)
boys:
178 births since 2008
#4408 (4th percentile)
overall:
248 births since 2008
#7491 (3rd percentile)
The name Yichen is the #7,491 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 248 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,408 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,646 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 2012.
Yichen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2012 for girls). Birth data for Yichen is available in 14 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (14 years for boys and 10 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 Yichen has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Yichen were boys.
For boys, Yichen reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #897) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Yichen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
For girls, Yichen reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #932) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yichen".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yichen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Yichen is pronounced as YEE-chehn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YEE-chuhn, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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