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Yaretzi vs Yarexi

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 173 Yarexis. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzi Yarexi

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

Yaretzi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Yaretzi had 320 and Yarexi had 25.

Side by side

  Yaretzi Yarexi
Total US births 13,609173
Most in one year 1,05825
Babies in 2025 4225
Estimated living today 14,000170
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20122006
Best rank 302nd girls5,383rd girls
Rank in 2025 670th14,942nd
First recorded 19982006
Girls / boys 13,609 / 0173 / 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 Yarexis alive today are over 13; half the Yaretzis are over 10. That is 3 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: Yaretzi and Yarexi.