girls:
375 births since 1972
#5341 (7th percentile)
boys:
434 births since 1969
#4152 (9th percentile)
overall:
809 births since 1969
#6930 (10th percentile)
The name Yu is the #6,930 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 809 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 10.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,152 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 434 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,341 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 375 births since 1972.
Yu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Yu is available in 50 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 37 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 Yu is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Yu were boys.
For boys, Yu reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #801) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Yu ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 39.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yu reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #969) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yu".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Yu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Yu is pronounced as yue, which has 1 syllables.
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