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Yanet vs Yanna

American parents have registered 2,269 Yanets since 1880, against 608 Yannas. But in 2025 it was Yanna that was commoner, 16 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yanet Yanna

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 52 years in which either name was published, Yanet for 48 years and Yanna for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yanet Yanna
Total US births 2,269608
Most in one year 8833
Babies in 2025 1316
Estimated living today 2,200600
Median age today 2418
Peak year 20042009
Best rank 2,067th girls4,482nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th6,838th
First recorded 19741971
Girls / boys 2,269 / 0608 / 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 Yannas are over 18. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Yanet Yanna
England and Wales 2931

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 Yanna.