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Yamil vs Yamilette

American parents have registered 1,601 Yamils since 1880, against 644 Yamilettes. Yamil is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yamil against Yamilette, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yamil Yamilette

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

Yamil has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Yamil had 20 and Yamilette had 20.

Side by side

  Yamil Yamilette
Total US births 1,601644
Most in one year 10340
Babies in 2025 238
Estimated living today 1,600640
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 1,553rd boys3,918th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th10,917th
First recorded 19611979
Girls / boys 77 / 1,524644 / 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.

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 Yamilette.