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Yarel vs Yaritza

American parents have registered 8,436 Yaritzas since 1880, against 901 Yarels. Yaritza is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarel Yaritza

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

Yaritza has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Yarel had 151 and Yaritza had 344.

Side by side

  Yarel Yaritza
Total US births 9018,436
Most in one year 151515
Babies in 2025 2159
Estimated living today 8908,300
Median age today 1417
Peak year 20091993
Best rank 1,733rd girls492nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th2,859th
First recorded 20061975
Girls / boys 620 / 2818,431 / 5

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 Yaritzas alive today are over 17; half the Yarels are over 14. That is 3 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.

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