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Yamilet vs Yamilette

American parents have registered 5,121 Yamilets since 1880, against 644 Yamilettes. Yamilet is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yamilet against Yamilette, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yamilet 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

Yamilet has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Yamilet had 5 and Yamilette had 5.

Side by side

  Yamilet Yamilette
Total US births 5,121644
Most in one year 31040
Babies in 2025 838
Estimated living today 5,100640
Median age today 1619
Peak year 20082007
Best rank 895th girls3,918th girls
Rank in 2025 2,214th10,917th
First recorded 19751979
Girls / boys 5,121 / 0644 / 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 Yamilettes alive today are over 19; half the Yamilets are over 16. That is 3 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: Yamilet and Yamilette.