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Yanet vs Yanitza

American parents have registered 2,269 Yanets since 1880, against 647 Yanitzas. Yanet is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yanet Yanitza

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

Yanet has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Yanet had 62 and Yanitza had 45.

Side by side

  Yanet Yanitza
Total US births 2,269647
Most in one year 8845
Babies in 2025 139
Estimated living today 2,200640
Median age today 2421
Peak year 20042008
Best rank 2,067th girls3,584th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th10,107th
First recorded 19741978
Girls / boys 2,269 / 0647 / 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 Yanitzas are over 21. That is 3 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: Yanet and Yanitza.