Yitty vs Yitzchak

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Yitty Yitzchak

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 56 years in which either name was published, Yitzchak for 30 years and Yitty for 26 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1968–1969 Yitzchak ahead
• 1970–1974 Yitty ahead
• 1975–1984 Yitzchak ahead
• 1985–1986 Yitty ahead
• 1987–1996 Yitzchak ahead
• 1997–1999 Yitty ahead
• 2000–2002 Yitzchak ahead
• 2003 Yitty ahead
• 2004–2006 Yitzchak ahead
• 2007–2008 Yitty ahead
• 2009–2010 Yitzchak ahead
• 2011–2025 Yitty ahead

Side by side

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 Yitzchaks alive today are over 15; half the Yittys are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Yitty New York (12.4×), New Jersey (1.2×)
• Yitzchak New York (9.4×), New Jersey (8.9×), Maryland (1.4×)

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.

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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