Given name & surname
Yeni
“one who is desired”
Yeni is a variant of Yen. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yeni is a variant of Yen. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yeni is a variant of Yen. An origin associated with Yen is Chinese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yeni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 469
- 0 boys · 469 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,195 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,195 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,974 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yeni
- Yeni KutiNigerian dancer, singer and business womanborn 1961
- Yeni AsmaraniIndonesian badminton playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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