Ye
Meaning
brave (ရဲ); a name for the eighth day. Burmese astrology splits Wednesday in two, and children born Wednesday afternoon, under Yahu, receive names starting with y or r
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Ye has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
151 people · the #30,950 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 41
Among people named Ye living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Ye deep dive
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