Yordi vs York
American parents have registered 966 Yorks since 1880, against 611 Yordis. But in 2025 it was Yordi that was commoner, 17 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Yordi York
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 110 years in which either name was published, York for 86 years and Yordi for 24 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Yordi | York | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 611 | 966 |
| Most in one year | 56 | 21 |
| Babies in 2025 | 17 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 600 | 620 |
| Median age today | 19 | 43 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 1971 |
| Best rank | 2,248th boys | 1,987th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,399th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1993 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 611 | 11 / 955 |
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 Yorks alive today are over 43; half the Yordis are over 19. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yordi and York.