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Yamile vs Yamileth

American parents have registered 6,643 Yamileths since 1880, against 1,328 Yamiles. Yamileth is still ahead, with 245 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yamile 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 59 years in which either name was published, Yamileth for 33 years and Yamile for 26 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Yamile Yamileth
Total US births 1,3286,643
Most in one year 204353
Babies in 2025 5245
Estimated living today 1,3006,600
Median age today 2311
Peak year 20002014
Best rank 1,029th girls794th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,022nd
First recorded 19631976
Girls / boys 1,328 / 06,643 / 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 Yamiles alive today are over 23; half the Yamileths are over 11. That is 12 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: Yamile and Yamileth.