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Yamile vs Yamilet

American parents have registered 5,121 Yamilets since 1880, against 1,328 Yamiles. Yamilet is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yamile 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 59 years in which either name was published, Yamilet for 42 years and Yamile for 17 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Yamile Yamilet
Total US births 1,3285,121
Most in one year 204310
Babies in 2025 583
Estimated living today 1,3005,100
Median age today 2316
Peak year 20002008
Best rank 1,029th girls895th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd2,214th
First recorded 19631975
Girls / boys 1,328 / 05,121 / 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 Yamiles alive today are over 23; half the Yamilets are over 16. That is 7 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: Yamile and Yamilet.