Yuchen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yoo-CHEN
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Yuchen is a boys' name of Chinese origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Yuchen mean?
Chinese: meaning depends on the characters used
Its meaning depends on the characters chosen; a common pairing is yu 'universe' with chen 'morning'.
Is Yuchen a girl's or a boy's name?
Yuchen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yuchen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 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, 5 boys in the US were named Yuchen, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2019, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Yuchen in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yuchen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
Names like Yuchen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru Yug Kairo Yuri Mikko Loki Kaizen Zuko Kota Rumi Chozen Hiro
Names related to Yuchen
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, “Yuchen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yuchen, updated 20 October 2026.