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Yarely vs Yaron

American parents have registered 4,040 Yarelys since 1880, against 295 Yarons. Yarely is still ahead, with 115 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yarely Yaron

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 52 years in which either name was published, Yarely for 38 years and Yaron for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yarely Yaron
Total US births 4,040295
Most in one year 21314
Babies in 2025 11510
Estimated living today 4,000280
Median age today 1426
Peak year 20082014
Best rank 1,193rd girls5,997th boys
Rank in 2025 1,758th7,679th
First recorded 19871967
Girls / boys 4,040 / 00 / 295

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 Yarons alive today are over 26; half the Yarelys are over 14. That is 12 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 Yaron.