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Yared vs Yaretzy

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 801 Yareds. Yaretzy is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yared against Yaretzy, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yared Yaretzy

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 34 years in which either name was published, Yaretzy for 22 years and Yared for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yared Yaretzy
Total US births 8012,762
Most in one year 45230
Babies in 2025 3036
Estimated living today 7902,700
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20232013
Best rank 2,805th boys1,073rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th3,975th
First recorded 19921998
Girls / boys 87 / 7142,762 / 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.

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: Yared and Yaretzy.