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Yamil vs Yamilet

American parents have registered 5,121 Yamilets since 1880, against 1,601 Yamils. Yamilet is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yamil against Yamilet, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yamil Yamilet

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 55 years in which either name was published, Yamilet for 42 years and Yamil for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Yamil Yamilet
Total US births 1,6015,121
Most in one year 103310
Babies in 2025 2383
Estimated living today 1,6005,100
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20082008
Best rank 1,553rd boys895th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th2,214th
First recorded 19611975
Girls / boys 77 / 1,5245,121 / 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 Yamils alive today are over 18; half the Yamilets are over 16. That is 2 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: Yamil and Yamilet.