Yi

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Yi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Yi: Recorded since 1996, it reached #518 in 2005, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
51times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#518highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
2001	#3998
2002	#3409
2003	#2727
2004	#2802
2005	#1243
2006	#1748
2007	#1854
2008	#1344
2009	#1596
2010	#1731
2011	#1489
2012	#1720
2013	#2176
2014	#2203
2015	#2496
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2019	#3541
2020	#3447
2022	#4645

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 27 years from 1996 to 2022.

In 2008: #546 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1344 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2016
Highest recorded position: #518 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2016).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Yi appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 23 ranked years and 238 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1996.

Yi across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Yi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1243 (2005)	#4645 (2022)	21 of 27	221 (1996–2022)	21 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1201 (2010)	#5119 (2024)	23 of 26	238 (1999–2024)	21 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#518 (2005)	#601 (2016)	3 of 12	11 (2005–2016)	4 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#546 (2008)	#546 (2008)	4 of 6	16 (2003–2008)	7 (2008)

Yi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Yi in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	73	7 of 10	10
2010sbusiest	132	10 of 10	13
2020s	30	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #518 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Yi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1270	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1489	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1201	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1344	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1506	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#546	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #518, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amine · #518, 29y
Andrey · #518, 24y
Christa · #518, 25y
Eren · #518, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amine · #518, 29y
Braydon · #518, 29y
Eren · #518, 29y
Fawaz · #518, 28y

Yi was ranked #518 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Yi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Yi without appearing here.

Yi moved ahead of

Ollie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2802 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1243 and #3970.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2578 and #2304 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #4052.
Finn Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3409 and #2868 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1243 and #3382.

Moved ahead of Yi

Ida Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2683 and #3126 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3998 and #1728.
Daithi Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #3112 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #5119 and #3254.
Harald Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #4991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #5119 and #3254.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.

Moved the opposite way to Yi

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 while Ada went from #2683 to #36.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 while Alma went from #2096 to #279.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 while Alyssa went from #783 to #224.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 while Amalie went from #2096 to #940.

Moved the same way as Yi

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 and Abigail from #21 to #128.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 and Aimee from #70 to #1326.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 and Aisling from #440 to #1621.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Yi went from #2683 to #4645 and Alex from #161 to #2178.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #518 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Yi

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Yi across 4 official records

Yi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Yi across 4 official records

Yi by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Yi appears in

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