Yifan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ee-FAN
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Yifan is a boys' name of Chinese origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Yifan mean?
Chinese: Mandarin
A Mandarin given name whose meaning depends on which characters are used to write it.
Is Yifan a girl's or a boy's name?
Yifan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yifan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Yifan, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the boys named Yifan in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yifan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
Names like Yifan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Yazan Zayan Musa Izan Zahir Zamir Khaza Zohan Azai Zayd Zayaan Hamza
More Chinese names
Lian Jia Mei Tai Tian Jun Mulan Yi Tao San Jian Han Mian Bao Xia Lin
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yifan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yifan, updated 20 October 2026.