Names starting
with Y.

Y is a vowel-glide hybrid found in Welsh, Greek, and modern American respellings. Our database lists 5 given names that begin with it — 2 for girls and 3 for boys.

At the top of each list, Yasmine (#1414 in 2023) leads the girls while Yusuf (#494) leads the boys.

The most-used Y names on this page draw from Arabic (Persian origin), Arabic, Arabic (Hebrew origin) traditions, which is roughly the cultural footprint you'd expect from U.S. naming patterns.

Y skews masculine in our data: there are about 1.5× more boy names starting with Y than girl names.