Yiyi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YEE-yee
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Yiyi is a girls' name of Chinese origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Yiyi mean?
Chinese: Chinese repeated-syllable name; the meaning depends on the characters
Doubled names like Yiyi are common as affectionate names in Chinese.
Is Yiyi a girl's or a boy's name?
Yiyi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yiyi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Yiyi, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Yiyi in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yiyi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
Names like Yiyi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Yumi Miyori Rumi Yuri Xuri Tru Kyomi Yuna Zhuri Suki Kiyomi Ainhoa
Names related to Yiyi
More Chinese names
Lian Jia Mei Tai Tian Jun Mulan Tao San Jian Han Mian Bao Xia Lin Yichen
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, “Yiyi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yiyi, updated 20 October 2026.