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Yanet vs Yanis

American parents have registered 2,269 Yanets since 1880, against 808 Yanises. But in 2025 it was Yanis that was commoner, 52 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yanet against Yanis, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yanet Yanis

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 42 years and Yanis for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yanet Yanis
Total US births 2,269808
Most in one year 8881
Babies in 2025 1352
Estimated living today 2,200800
Median age today 246
Peak year 20042021
Best rank 2,067th girls2,109th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th2,539th
First recorded 19741998
Girls / boys 2,269 / 0134 / 674

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 Yanises are over 6. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yanet Yanis
England and Wales 29697

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yanet and Yanis.