girls:
11 births since 2018
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
947 births since 1880
#3644 (20th percentile)
overall:
958 births since 1880
#6781 (12th percentile)
The name York is the #6,781 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 958 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 12.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,644 (20.5% percentile) for all time with 947 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2018.
York has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2018 for girls). Birth data for York is available in 103 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (103 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 York has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, York reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #651) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 65 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, York ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, York reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "York".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name York. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that York is pronounced as york, which has 1 syllables.
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