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Yarely vs Yareth

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 652 Yareths. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yarely against Yareth, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yarely Yareth

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

Yarely has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Yarely had 102 and Yareth had 53.

Side by side

  Yarely Yareth
Total US births 4,040652
Most in one year 21353
Babies in 2025 11528
Estimated living today 4,000650
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 1,193rd girls2,510th boys
Rank in 2025 1,758th3,848th
First recorded 19871998
Girls / boys 4,040 / 0249 / 403

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 Yarelys alive today are over 14; half the Yareths are over 11. 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: Yarely and Yareth.