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Yareli vs Yaretzi

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 10,702 Yarelis. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yareli against Yaretzi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yareli Yaretzi

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 41 years in which either name was published, Yareli for 24 years and Yaretzi for 17 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yareli Yaretzi
Total US births 10,70213,609
Most in one year 5911,058
Babies in 2025 343422
Estimated living today 11,00014,000
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20092012
Best rank 510th girls302nd girls
Rank in 2025 792nd670th
First recorded 19851998
Girls / boys 10,702 / 013,609 / 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 Yarelis alive today are over 13; half the Yaretzis are over 10. 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: Yareli and Yaretzi.