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Yamilet vs Yamina

American parents have registered 5,121 Yamilets since 1880, against 196 Yaminas. Yamilet is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yamilet 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

Yamilet has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Yamilet had 7 and Yamina had 6.

Side by side

  Yamilet Yamina
Total US births 5,121196
Most in one year 31011
Babies in 2025 839
Estimated living today 5,100190
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20081995
Best rank 895th girls7,514th girls
Rank in 2025 2,214th10,107th
First recorded 19751978
Girls / boys 5,121 / 0196 / 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.

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