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Yamil vs Yamileth

American parents have registered 6,643 Yamileths since 1880, against 1,601 Yamils. Yamileth is still ahead, with 245 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yamil against Yamileth, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yamil Yamileth

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 53 years in which either name was published, Yamileth for 34 years and Yamil for 19 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Yamil Yamileth
Total US births 1,6016,643
Most in one year 103353
Babies in 2025 23245
Estimated living today 1,6006,600
Median age today 1811
Peak year 20082014
Best rank 1,553rd boys794th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th1,022nd
First recorded 19611976
Girls / boys 77 / 1,5246,643 / 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 Yamils alive today are over 18; half the Yamileths are over 11. That is 7 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: Yamil and Yamileth.