Yale
Yale is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192929 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1908
- 1,416people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,416 boys have been named Yale in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 29 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 29 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 15%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Yale | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 143 | |
| 1920s | 217 | |
| 1930s | 138 | |
| 1940s | 140 | |
| 1950s | 129 | |
| 1960s | 164 | |
| 1970s | 99 | |
| 1980s | 115 | |
| 1990s | 120 | |
| 2000s | 77 | |
| 2010s | 57 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Yale was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1929 were Robert, James, John, William and Charles. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Yale
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Placidopeak 1923
- Salvatorepeak 1927
- Vitopeak 1925
- Ysidropeak 1922
- Santopeak 1925
- Salvadorepeak 1924
- Manualpeak 1928
- Garvinpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.