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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Yen

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

564

peak year 1982

More common than

85%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1982
33 births
Best rank
#2,829
in 1982
First recorded
1975
#10,599 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
41 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198233#2,829Peak
  2. 198532#2,935
  3. 198127#3,249
  4. 198427#3,231
  5. 198326#3,238

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,829 in 1982 · peak births 33 in 1982

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 8% boys■ 92% girls

47 boys · 564 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Yen has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.