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Yandel vs Yaneth

American parents have registered 3,748 Yandels since 1880, against 1,103 Yaneths. Yandel is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yandel Yaneth

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 46 years in which either name was published, Yaneth for 25 years and Yandel for 21 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yandel Yaneth
Total US births 3,7481,103
Most in one year 51141
Babies in 2025 4620
Estimated living today 3,7001,100
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20092004
Best rank 529th boys3,566th girls
Rank in 2025 2,765th5,917th
First recorded 20011975
Girls / boys 9 / 3,7391,103 / 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 Yaneths alive today are over 19; half the Yandels are over 15. That is 4 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: Yandel and Yaneth.