Humanverse

Yara vs Yarishna

American parents have registered 7,565 Yaras since 1880, against 46 Yarishnas. Yara is still ahead, with 592 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yara Yarishna

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 2019, when Yara had 365 and Yarishna had 28.

Side by side

  Yara Yarishna
Total US births 7,56546
Most in one year 59228
Babies in 2025 592under 5
Estimated living today 7,50050
Median age today 76
Peak year 20252019
Best rank 507th girls4,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 507thunranked
First recorded 19692018
Girls / boys 7,534 / 3146 / 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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