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Yarely vs Yarishna

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 46 Yarishnas. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarely Yarishna

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 2019, when Yarely had 151 and Yarishna had 28.

Side by side

  Yarely Yarishna
Total US births 4,04046
Most in one year 21328
Babies in 2025 115under 5
Estimated living today 4,00050
Median age today 146
Peak year 20082019
Best rank 1,193rd girls4,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,758thunranked
First recorded 19872018
Girls / boys 4,040 / 046 / 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 Yarishnas are over 6. That is 8 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 Yarishna.