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Yandel vs Yanelli

American parents have registered 3,748 Yandels since 1880, against 545 Yanellis. Yandel is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yandel against Yanelli, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yandel Yanelli

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 37 years in which either name was published, Yandel for 24 years and Yanelli for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yandel Yanelli
Total US births 3,748545
Most in one year 51128
Babies in 2025 4619
Estimated living today 3,700540
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 529th boys4,887th girls
Rank in 2025 2,765th6,116th
First recorded 20011989
Girls / boys 9 / 3,739545 / 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: Yandel and Yanelli.