Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yifan isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yifan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 114
- 104 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,645 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −72%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,645 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,227 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.
Yifan’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yifan
- Hou YifanChinese chess playerborn 1994
- Jia YifanChinese badminton playerborn 1997
- JerryCTaiwanese musicianborn 1981
- Sun Yifanassociation football playerborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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