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Youlanda vs Younes

American parents have registered 857 Youlandas since 1880, against 645 Youneses. But in 2025 it was Younes that was commoner, 68 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Youlanda against Younes, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Youlanda Younes

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 66 years in which either name was published, Youlanda for 39 years and Younes for 27 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Youlanda Younes
Total US births 857645
Most in one year 5068
Babies in 2025 under 568
Estimated living today 770640
Median age today 566
Peak year 19692025
Best rank 1,711th girls2,125th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,125th
First recorded 19461999
Girls / boys 857 / 00 / 645

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 Youlandas alive today are over 56; half the Youneses are over 6. That is 50 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: Youlanda and Younes.