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Yamileth vs Yamilex

American parents have registered 6,643 Yamileths since 1880, against 1,275 Yamilexes. Yamileth is still ahead, with 245 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yamileth Yamilex

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 44 years in which either name was published, Yamileth for 39 years and Yamilex for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yamileth Yamilex
Total US births 6,6431,275
Most in one year 353301
Babies in 2025 24517
Estimated living today 6,6001,300
Median age today 1126
Peak year 20141996
Best rank 794th girls707th girls
Rank in 2025 1,022nd6,546th
First recorded 19761995
Girls / boys 6,643 / 01,275 / 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 Yamilexes alive today are over 26; half the Yamileths are over 11. That is 15 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: Yamileth and Yamilex.