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Yara vs Yarisbel

American parents have registered 7,565 Yaras since 1880, against 81 Yarisbels. Yara is still ahead, with 592 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yara Yarisbel

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 2005, when Yara had 87 and Yarisbel had 30.

Side by side

  Yara Yarisbel
Total US births 7,56581
Most in one year 59230
Babies in 2025 592under 5
Estimated living today 7,50080
Median age today 719
Peak year 20252005
Best rank 507th girls4,487th girls
Rank in 2025 507thunranked
First recorded 19692005
Girls / boys 7,534 / 3181 / 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 Yarisbels alive today are over 19; half the Yaras are over 7. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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