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Yadier vs Yadira

American parents have registered 12,838 Yadiras since 1880, against 842 Yadiers. Yadira is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yadier against Yadira, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yadier Yadira

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Yadira has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Yadier had 68 and Yadira had 78.

Side by side

  Yadier Yadira
Total US births 84212,838
Most in one year 71593
Babies in 2025 2138
Estimated living today 84013,000
Median age today 1027
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 1,972nd boys506th girls
Rank in 2025 4,707th3,832nd
First recorded 20051949
Girls / boys 0 / 84212,815 / 23

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Yadiras alive today are over 27; half the Yadiers are over 10. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yadier and Yadira.