girls:
18 births since 2014
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
92 births since 2009
#4494 (2nd percentile)
overall:
110 births since 2009
#7629 (1st percentile)
The name Yuchen is the #7,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 110 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,494 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 92 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2014.
Yuchen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Yuchen is available in 12 out of the 14 years between 2009 and 2022 (11 years for boys and 3 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 Yuchen has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Yuchen were boys.
For boys, Yuchen reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #910) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Yuchen reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #948) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% 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 "Yuchen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yuchen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Yuchen is pronounced as YUE-chehn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YUE-chuhn, at 21.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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