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Yasani vs Yaseen

American parents have registered 3,337 Yaseens since 1880, against 54 Yasanis. Yaseen is still ahead, with 215 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yasani Yaseen

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

Yaseen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Yasani had 19 and Yaseen had 174.

Side by side

  Yasani Yaseen
Total US births 543,337
Most in one year 19215
Babies in 2025 5215
Estimated living today 503,300
Median age today 210
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 6,229th girls1,030th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,030th
First recorded 20221980
Girls / boys 49 / 50 / 3,337

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 Yaseens alive today are over 10; half the Yasanis are over 2. 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: Yasani and Yaseen.