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Yamilet vs Yamir

American parents have registered 5,121 Yamilets since 1880, against 850 Yamirs. Yamilet is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yamilet Yamir

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 2024, when Yamilet had 81 and Yamir had 53.

Side by side

  Yamilet Yamir
Total US births 5,121850
Most in one year 31055
Babies in 2025 8347
Estimated living today 5,100840
Median age today 1611
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 895th girls2,441st boys
Rank in 2025 2,214th2,718th
First recorded 19751991
Girls / boys 5,121 / 00 / 850

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 Yamilets alive today are over 16; half the Yamirs are over 11. That is 5 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: Yamilet and Yamir.