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Yurico vs Yuriko

American parents have registered 761 Yurikos since 1880, against 45 Yuricos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yurico Yuriko

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

Yuriko has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Yurico had 21 and Yuriko had 41.

Side by side

  Yurico Yuriko
Total US births 45761
Most in one year 2142
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 40370
Median age today 3631
Peak year 19881923
Best rank 4,172nd girls1,197th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19881914
Girls / boys 45 / 0761 / 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 Yuricos alive today are over 36; half the Yurikos are over 31. That is 5 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: Yurico and Yuriko.