Girl Names Starting With Y
Yara leads the Y names for girls: 585 babies received it in 2025, putting it at #507 overall. None of these rank inside the 2025 overall top 100; the best-ranked, Yara, is #507 with 585 births.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #507 | Yara | 585 |
| #672 | Yaretzi | 422 |
| #794 | Yareli | 343 |
| #952 | Yuna | 271 |
| #959 | Yasmin | 269 |
| #1,021 | Yusra | 246 |
| #1,026 | Yamileth | 245 |
| #1,185 | Yasmine | 196 |
| #1,206 | Yaneli | 189 |
| #1,498 | Yashna | 143 |
| #1,533 | Yuri | 139 |
| #1,560 | Yuliana | 136 |
| #1,579 | Yitty | 134 |
| #1,630 | Yvette | 128 |
| #1,642 | Yael | 127 |
| #1,651 | Yazmin | 126 |
| #1,672 | Yehudis | 124 |
| #1,701 | Yasmeen | 121 |
| #1,768 | Yarely | 115 |
| #1,795 | Yesly | 113 |
| #1,807 | Yelena | 112 |
| #1,866 | Yasmina | 107 |
| #1,901 | Yesenia | 103 |
| #2,016 | Yoselin | 95 |
| #2,063 | Yvonne | 92 |
| #2,237 | Yamilet | 83 |
| #2,409 | Yana | 75 |
| #2,483 | Yanely | 72 |
| #2,582 | Yides | 68 |
| #2,894 | Yaritza | 59 |
| #2,996 | Yocheved | 56 |
| #3,027 | Yumi | 55 |
| #3,129 | Yatziri | 52 |
| #3,210 | Yetzali | 50 |
| #3,248 | Yolanda | 49 |
| #3,295 | Yulissa | 48 |
| #3,341 | Yalani | 47 |
| #3,384 | Yumna | 46 |
| #3,456 | Ysabella | 45 |
| #3,514 | Yeimy | 44 |
| #3,573 | Yohana | 43 |
| #3,900 | Yadira | 38 |
| #3,901 | Yohanna | 38 |
| #3,971 | Yailin | 37 |
| #3,972 | Yashvi | 37 |
| #4,064 | Yaretzy | 36 |
| #4,065 | Yulieth | 36 |
| #4,167 | Yari | 35 |
| #4,348 | Yamila | 33 |
| #4,349 | Yazmine | 33 |
Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin Y girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.
How common is Y as a first letter for girls in 2025?
Across the 2025 top 1,000 girl names, the 5 that start with Y hold 0.2% of the list's births between them, placing Y 25th of the 26 initials. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims none of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims none, the 501–1,000 band claims 5, and 45 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Yazmine, still carries 33 births at #4,349; any Y girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.
Summed, the 50 names in the 2025 Y table account for 5,896 births, and the first count, Yara's 585, is 17.7 times the last, Yazmine's 33. The middle row, the 25th, is Yvonne at #2,063 with 92 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 327 ranks, from Yohana (#3,573) to Yadira (#3,900); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 4 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Yadira (#3,900) and Yohanna (#3,901), at 38 births each. The 2025 overall top 100 contains no Y girl name at all: Yara, the letter's best, sits at #507 with 585 births.
How a rank like #507 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.
Y girl names across the decade snapshots
Y girl names appear in the top 200 in 4 of the 7 snapshot years: 1955 (2 names, led by Yvonne at #119 with 3,546 births), 1965 (3 names, led by Yvonne at #132 with 2,954 births), 1975 (2 names, led by Yolanda at #107 with 2,655 births) and 1995 (1 name, led by Yesenia at #200 with 1,495 births). In the other 3 (1985, 2005, 2015), no Y girl name reached rank 200, which is where the committed decade files stop. The lead changed hands among 3 names across those 4 snapshots (Yvonne, Yolanda and Yesenia), and in 2025 the letter's leader is Yara, at #507, a name that led no snapshot.
| Snapshot | Y names in top 200 | Leading Y name | Rank | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s (1955) | 2 | Yvonne | #119 | 3,546 |
| 1960s (1965) | 3 | Yvonne | #132 | 2,954 |
| 1970s (1975) | 2 | Yolanda | #107 | 2,655 |
| 1980s (1985) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990s (1995) | 1 | Yesenia | #200 | 1,495 |
| 2000s (2005) | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2010s (2015) | 0 | — | — | — |
Snapshot by snapshot, the share of top-200 girl births going to Y names reads 0.4% in 1955, 0.6% in 1965, 0.4% in 1975, 0.0% in 1985, 0.1% in 1995, 0.0% in 2005 and 0.0% in 2015, highest in 1965 and lowest in 1985. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds no Y name and gives the letter 0.0%; its first Y entry that year, Yara, sits at #507. Y's 0.4% in 1955 and 0.0% in 2015 are two cells of the girls' table in First-letter trends since 1955, which sets every initial beside the other 25 for each snapshot year; it is one of the site's data guides.
Faded and new Y girl names
Nothing has faded at the committed depths: each Y girl name found in a snapshot top 200 is still on the 2025 list, and 4 of the table's 50 rows have at least one snapshot appearance.
The 2025 table also carries 46 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Yara (#507), Yaretzi (#672), Yareli (#794), Yuna (#952), Yasmin (#959), Yusra (#1,021), Yamileth (#1,026), Yasmine (#1,185), Yaneli (#1,206), Yashna (#1,498), Yuri (#1,533) and Yuliana (#1,560), and 34 more. Yara, the best-ranked of the 46 at #507, could still have been given to girls below rank 200 in 1955 or in any later snapshot year, because the decade files record nothing beneath that depth.
The shape of the 2025 Y list
Short names (four letters or fewer) number 7 in the 2025 Y table, medium ones (five to seven) 40, and long ones (eight or more) 3. Ranked within each class, the 2025 Y table has 7 short spellings from Yara at #507 to Yari at #4,167, 40 medium spellings from Yaretzi at #672 to Yazmine at #4,349, and 3 long spellings from Yamileth at #1,026 to Ysabella at #3,456. By letter count, Yara is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (4 letters, #507) and Yamileth the longest (8 letters, #1,026). "a" is the second letter of 26 of the 50 names in the 2025 Y table, "u" of 8, and "e" of 6; 7 second letters are used in total.
Across the sexes, 2 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' Y list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Yuri (#1,533 for girls, #1,825 for boys) and Yael (#1,642 for girls, #818 for boys).
Y girl names: questions the data answers
What is the most popular girl name starting with Y in 2025?
Yara. The 2025 SSA data records 585 girls named Yara, which places it at #507 among all girl names that year.
How many girl names starting with Y are in the 2025 top 1,000?
5. Together they account for 0.2% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 25th-largest share among the 26 initials.
Why does this page list 50 Y girl names?
The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and Y fills it: the 50th row is Yazmine at #4,349. Any Y names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.
Which Y girl name on this page has the lowest rank?
Yazmine, at #4,349 with 33 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #507 to #4,349 covers names that start with other letters.
How many Y girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?
2 in 1955 (led by Yvonne at #119) and none in 2015. The 7 snapshots are single SSA years cut at rank 200; between them they hold 8 Y entries, and the Y count ranges from 0 (1985) to 3 (1965).
Do any of these Y girl names also appear on the boys' Y list for 2025?
Yes, 2 of the 50: Yuri (#1,533 for girls, #1,825 for boys) and Yael (#1,642 for girls, #818 for boys). Each shared spelling is ranked once per sex: for Yuri that is #1,533 and 139 births on the girls' side against #1,825 and 88 on the boys'.
Other letters
Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with Y.
Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.