The best baby names starting with Y
Some families need a name that starts with Y — an initial passed down, a pattern with the siblings, or simply a sound you love.
Here are today's strongest Y-names, straight from the latest records, girls and boys side by side.
Girls
Boys
- Yusuf#449 today
- Yahya#615 today
- Yosef#663 today
- Yehuda#740 today
- Yousef#744 today
- Yahir#814 today
- Yael#817 today
- Yisroel#824 today
- Yadiel#838 today
- Yitzchok#910 today
- Yeshua#1005 today
- Yaakov#1024 today
- Yaseen#1030 today
- Yazan#1123 today
- Yasir#1156 today
- Yasin#1235 today
- Yohan#1256 today
- Yakov#1281 today
- Yunus#1290 today
- Yair#1443 today
How this list is built: Names beginning with Y inside the current national top-1500, ordered by today's rank. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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