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Yarely vs Yareni

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 645 Yarenis. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarely Yareni

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 39 years in which either name was published, Yarely for 38 years and Yareni for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yarely Yareni
Total US births 4,040645
Most in one year 21338
Babies in 2025 11514
Estimated living today 4,000640
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 1,193rd girls3,916th girls
Rank in 2025 1,758th7,491st
First recorded 19871986
Girls / boys 4,040 / 0645 / 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 Yarelys alive today are over 14; half the Yarenis are over 11. 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: Yarely and Yareni.