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Yaseen vs Yasiel

American parents have registered 3,337 Yaseens since 1880, against 888 Yasiels. Yaseen is still ahead, with 215 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaseen Yasiel

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 2018, when Yaseen had 164 and Yasiel had 93.

Side by side

  Yaseen Yasiel
Total US births 3,337888
Most in one year 21593
Babies in 2025 21582
Estimated living today 3,300880
Median age today 106
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 1,030th boys1,687th boys
Rank in 2025 1,030th1,906th
First recorded 19802003
Girls / boys 0 / 3,3370 / 888

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 Yasiels are over 6. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yaseen Yasiel
England and Wales 1,9503

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yaseen and Yasiel.