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Yahir vs Yahritza

American parents have registered 12,481 Yahirs since 1880, against 122 Yahritzas. Yahir is still ahead, with 305 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yahir against Yahritza, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yahir Yahritza

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

Yahir has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Yahir had 291 and Yahritza had 53.

Side by side

  Yahir Yahritza
Total US births 12,481122
Most in one year 1,28753
Babies in 2025 30510
Estimated living today 12,000120
Median age today 162
Peak year 20032023
Best rank 258th boys3,091st girls
Rank in 2025 814th9,457th
First recorded 19922022
Girls / boys 50 / 12,431122 / 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 Yahirs alive today are over 16; half the Yahritzas are over 2. That is 14 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: Yahir and Yahritza.