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Yasani vs Yasir

American parents have registered 3,267 Yasirs since 1880, against 54 Yasanis. Yasir is still ahead, with 181 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yasani Yasir

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

Yasir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

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

Side by side

  Yasani Yasir
Total US births 543,267
Most in one year 19205
Babies in 2025 5181
Estimated living today 503,200
Median age today 210
Peak year 20222019
Best rank 6,229th girls1,013th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,156th
First recorded 20221974
Girls / boys 49 / 50 / 3,267

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 Yasirs 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 Yasir.