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Yarely vs Yaribeth

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 33 Yaribeths. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarely Yaribeth

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 2005, when Yarely had 153 and Yaribeth had 14.

Side by side

  Yarely Yaribeth
Total US births 4,04033
Most in one year 21314
Babies in 2025 115under 5
Estimated living today 4,00030
Median age today 1419
Peak year 20082005
Best rank 1,193rd girls7,891st girls
Rank in 2025 1,758thunranked
First recorded 19872005
Girls / boys 4,040 / 033 / 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 Yaribeths alive today are over 19; half the Yarelys are over 14. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yarely and Yaribeth.