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Yarelyn vs Yaritza

American parents have registered 8,436 Yaritzas since 1880, against 39 Yarelyns. Yaritza is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yarelyn against Yaritza, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yarelyn Yaritza

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

Yaritza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Yarelyn had 5 and Yaritza had 57.

Side by side

  Yarelyn Yaritza
Total US births 398,436
Most in one year 24515
Babies in 2025 under 559
Estimated living today 408,300
Median age today 3217
Peak year 19931993
Best rank 4,257th girls492nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,859th
First recorded 19931975
Girls / boys 39 / 08,431 / 5

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 Yarelyns alive today are over 32; half the Yaritzas are over 17. That is 15 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: Yarelyn and Yaritza.