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Yeneisy vs Yennifer

American parents have registered 515 Yennifers since 1880, against 33 Yeneisys. Yennifer is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yeneisy against Yennifer, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yeneisy Yennifer

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 36 years in which either name was published, Yennifer for 35 years and Yeneisy for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yeneisy Yennifer
Total US births 33515
Most in one year 2732
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 30510
Median age today 1822
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 5,230th girls4,109th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 20071985
Girls / boys 33 / 0515 / 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 Yennifers alive today are over 22; half the Yeneisys are over 18. That is 4 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: Yeneisy and Yennifer.