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Yarelis vs Yarely

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 724 Yarelises. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarelis Yarely

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 42 years in which either name was published, Yarely for 37 years and Yarelis for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yarelis Yarely
Total US births 7244,040
Most in one year 35213
Babies in 2025 21115
Estimated living today 7204,000
Median age today 1714
Peak year 20112008
Best rank 4,151st girls1,193rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd1,758th
First recorded 19841987
Girls / boys 724 / 04,040 / 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 Yarelises alive today are over 17; half the Yarelys 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: Yarelis and Yarely.