Ye: meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ye comes from Chinese.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ye through the years

Babies since 1880: 43; 27 boys · 16 girls
Most popular year: 2015; 7 babies
2025: 0; Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20: —; Too few births to compare

Boys Girls

Ye in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1989–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,370 as a first name in 2020; 15,576 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Ye’s family of names

In Greek usage, Ye as a surname is a transliteration of Υέ.

Walk Ye’s family in the name graph

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Υέin another script · Greek

Across languages 17

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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People named Ye

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Ye, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Ye’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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