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Yaneli vs Yanelly

American parents have registered 3,911 Yanelis since 1880, against 846 Yanellys. Yaneli is still ahead, with 189 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yaneli against Yanelly, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yaneli Yanelly

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 43 years in which either name was published, Yaneli for 42 years and Yanelly for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yaneli Yanelly
Total US births 3,911846
Most in one year 18937
Babies in 2025 18912
Estimated living today 3,900840
Median age today 1417
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 1,204th girls4,131st girls
Rank in 2025 1,204th8,362nd
First recorded 19811987
Girls / boys 3,911 / 0846 / 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 Yanellys alive today are over 17; half the Yanelis are over 14. That is 3 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: Yaneli and Yanelly.