Masculine dossier · first seen 1908

Yale

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Yale
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1929

Peak era

1929

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Silent Generation

1908Peak 19292024

Peak year

1929

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,416

Yale is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1929, when 29 boys were named Yale.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,416 Americans have been named Yale and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1908.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1929

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