girls:
94 births since 2008
#5622 (2nd percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2015
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
105 births since 2008
#7634 (1st percentile)
The name Yilin is the #7,634 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 105 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,622 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 2008. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2015.
Yilin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for girls and 2015 for boys). Birth data for Yilin is available in 13 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (13 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Yilin has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Yilin were girls.
For girls, Yilin reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #950) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yilin ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 73.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Yilin reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #923) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yilin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yilin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Yilin is pronounced as YEE-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YIH-lihn, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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