girls:
10 births since 2011
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 2010
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
106 births since 2010
#7633 (1st percentile)
The name Yifan is the #7,633 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 106 recorded births since 2010. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 2010. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2011.
Yifan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2010 (2010 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Yifan is available in 12 out of the 14 years between 2010 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 2 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 Yifan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yifan reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #904) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Yifan ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 57.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yifan reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yifan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Yifan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.7% confident that Yifan is pronounced as YEE-FAN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YEE-fuhn, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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