Yates
Recorded 1914–2025 · United States
Yates was most popular in 1921, when 16 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,086 that year. In 2025 it ranked #12,918, with 14 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 517 people named Yates.
Yates over time
How old is the name Yates?
Yates first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 63 of the 112 years since.
How many people are named Yates?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 517 American births named Yates between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 299 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Yates in 2025?
14 American babies were named Yates in 2025, ranking #12,918 that year.
Is Yates getting more or less popular?
Yates is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 10 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Yates a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Yates is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 517 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Yates?
Roughly 299 Americans named Yates are alive today — 58% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 13 years old, and half are between 7 and 38. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Yates is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org