Girl Names That Start With Y
These are the 11 girl names that start with Y, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.
All 11 names
Girl names that start with Y in the 2025 data
Y is the twenty-third most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 8,509 of them, 0.5% of every girl in the file. It has slipped from twenty-second place a decade ago, and its share has barely moved: 0.5% then, 0.5% now.
This list holds the 11 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Yaretzi, #670 with 422 girls in 2025. 0 of the 11 are in this year's top 100, and 10 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Together they account for 1,461 of those 8,509 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.
The shortest name here is Yetta at 5 letters, the longest Yulissa at 7.
Questions about girl names that start with Y
What is the most popular girl name that starts with Y?
Yaretzi. 422 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #670 nationally.
How many girl names start with Y?
Eleven have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 8,509 girls born in 2025 — 0.5% of the total — were given a name starting with Y.
Are girl names that start with Y getting more popular?
Y is holding steady. It was twenty-second among first letters for girls a decade ago with 0.5% of births, and it is twenty-third in 2025 with 0.5%.