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Yanely vs Yanet

American parents have registered 2,269 Yanets since 1880, against 1,706 Yanelys. But in 2025 it was Yanely that was commoner, 72 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yanely against Yanet, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yanely Yanet

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 51 years in which either name was published, Yanet for 35 years and Yanely for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yanely Yanet
Total US births 1,7062,269
Most in one year 8588
Babies in 2025 7213
Estimated living today 1,7002,200
Median age today 1624
Peak year 20082004
Best rank 2,295th girls2,067th girls
Rank in 2025 2,458th7,885th
First recorded 19861974
Girls / boys 1,706 / 02,269 / 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 Yanets alive today are over 24; half the Yanelys are over 16. That is 8 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: Yanely and Yanet.