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Yaneli vs Yanet

American parents have registered 3,911 Yanelis since 1880, against 2,269 Yanets. Yaneli is still ahead, with 189 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yaneli against Yanet, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yaneli Yanet

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 51 years in which either name was published, Yanet for 26 years and Yaneli for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yaneli Yanet
Total US births 3,9112,269
Most in one year 18988
Babies in 2025 18913
Estimated living today 3,9002,200
Median age today 1424
Peak year 20252004
Best rank 1,204th girls2,067th girls
Rank in 2025 1,204th7,885th
First recorded 19811974
Girls / boys 3,911 / 02,269 / 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 Yanets alive today are over 24; half the Yanelis are over 14. That is 10 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: Yaneli and Yanet.