girls:
530 births since 1920
#5186 (9th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1880
#2668 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1880
#5132 (34th percentile)
The name Young is the #5,132 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,764 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 33.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,668 (41.8% percentile) for all time with 2,234 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,186 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 530 births since 1920.
Young has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls). Birth data for Young is available in 137 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (137 years for boys and 58 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 Young has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Young were boys.
For boys, Young reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #648) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 118 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Young reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #761) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Young".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Young. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.0% confident that Young is pronounced as yuhng, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yowng, at 25.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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