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Yates vs Yatziri

American parents have registered 1,443 Yatziris since 1880, against 517 Yateses. Yatziri is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yates against Yatziri, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yates Yatziri

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 68 years in which either name was published, Yates for 40 years and Yatziri for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yates Yatziri
Total US births 5171,443
Most in one year 16110
Babies in 2025 1452
Estimated living today 3001,400
Median age today 129
Peak year 19212023
Best rank 2,059th boys1,826th girls
Rank in 2025 6,143rd3,100th
First recorded 19141998
Girls / boys 0 / 5171,443 / 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 Yateses alive today are over 12; half the Yatziris are over 9. That is 3 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: Yates and Yatziri.