Yves
Yves is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198537 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1916
- 1,234people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,184 boys have been named Yves in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 37 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 50 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Yves | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 12 | |
| 1950s | 56 | |
| 1960s | 148 | |
| 1970s | 175 | |
| 1980s | 264 | |
| 1990s | 178 | |
| 2000s | 126 | |
| 2010s | 131 | |
| 2020s | 79 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Yves was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Yves
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Anibalpeak 1990
- Andrepeak 1970
- Rustinpeak 1979
- Derickpeak 1989
- Kervinpeak 1989
- Alainpeak 1988
- Arnaldopeak 1989
- Dainpeak 1978
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.