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Yaretzi vs Yaretzy

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 2,762 Yaretzys. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzi Yaretzy

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 28 years in which either name was published, Yaretzi for 25 years and Yaretzy for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Yaretzi Yaretzy
Total US births 13,6092,762
Most in one year 1,058230
Babies in 2025 42236
Estimated living today 14,0002,700
Median age today 1012
Peak year 20122013
Best rank 302nd girls1,073rd girls
Rank in 2025 670th3,975th
First recorded 19981998
Girls / boys 13,609 / 02,762 / 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 Yaretzys alive today are over 12; half the Yaretzis are over 10. That is 2 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: Yaretzi and Yaretzy.