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Yahia vs Yahritza

American parents have registered 561 Yahias since 1880, against 122 Yahritzas. Yahia is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yahia against Yahritza, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yahia Yahritza

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

Of the 26 years in which either name was published, Yahia for 24 years and Yahritza for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yahia Yahritza
Total US births 561122
Most in one year 5053
Babies in 2025 5010
Estimated living today 560120
Median age today 82
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 2,604th boys3,091st girls
Rank in 2025 2,604th9,457th
First recorded 20002022
Girls / boys 0 / 561122 / 0

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 Yahias alive today are over 8; half the Yahritzas are over 2. That is 6 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: Yahia and Yahritza.