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Yara vs Yared

American parents have registered 7,565 Yaras since 1880, against 801 Yareds. Yara is still ahead, with 592 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yara Yared

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

Yara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Yara had 78 and Yared had 28.

Side by side

  Yara Yared
Total US births 7,565801
Most in one year 59245
Babies in 2025 59230
Estimated living today 7,500790
Median age today 713
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 507th girls2,805th boys
Rank in 2025 507th3,658th
First recorded 19691992
Girls / boys 7,534 / 3187 / 714

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 Yareds alive today are over 13; half the Yaras are over 7. That is 6 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 Yara Yared
Switzerland 2,94867
France 2,38015
England and Wales 1,62737
Belgium 1,6415

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: Yara and Yared.