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Yamil vs Yamina

American parents have registered 1,601 Yamils since 1880, against 196 Yaminas. Yamil is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yamil against Yamina, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yamil Yamina

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

Yamil has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Yamil had 10 and Yamina had 6.

Side by side

  Yamil Yamina
Total US births 1,601196
Most in one year 10311
Babies in 2025 239
Estimated living today 1,600190
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20081995
Best rank 1,553rd boys7,514th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th10,107th
First recorded 19611978
Girls / boys 77 / 1,524196 / 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yamil Yamina
France 510,335

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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