Yi is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
At least in the US, the name Yi is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Yi each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Yi will meet someone with the same name. So, Yi is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Yi. Children named Yi have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 8,826 Yi ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Yi has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1993. In general, parents name their babies Yi only once in a blue moon, so kids and adults with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Yi continues to be a precious jewel: 24 newborns were named Yi that year, ranking #9,119 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Yi, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
Being only two letters long, the name Yi is really special. Only 0.2% of all common first names in the US are written with just two letters. On the other hand, 99.8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than two letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.6% of all first names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial.
If your name is Yi and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yi, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yi
Yi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yi sounds like this:
