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Yarely vs Yaretzi

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 4,040 Yarelys. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarely 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 38 years in which either name was published, Yaretzi for 20 years and Yarely for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yarely Yaretzi
Total US births 4,04013,609
Most in one year 2131,058
Babies in 2025 115422
Estimated living today 4,00014,000
Median age today 1410
Peak year 20082012
Best rank 1,193rd girls302nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,758th670th
First recorded 19871998
Girls / boys 4,040 / 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 Yarelys alive today are over 14; half the Yaretzis are over 10. That is 4 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 Yaretzi.