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Yumalay vs Yumna

American parents have registered 521 Yumnas since 1880, against 80 Yumalays. Yumna is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yumalay against Yumna, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yumalay Yumna

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 31 years in which either name was published, Yumna for 29 years and Yumalay for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yumalay Yumna
Total US births 80521
Most in one year 3746
Babies in 2025 under 546
Estimated living today 80520
Median age today 179
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 4,131st girls3,342nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,342nd
First recorded 20071995
Girls / boys 80 / 0521 / 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 Yumalays alive today are over 17; half the Yumnas are over 9. That is 8 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: Yumalay and Yumna.