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Yarethzy vs Yaretzi

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 90 Yarethzys. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yarethzy against Yaretzi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yarethzy Yaretzi

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

Yaretzi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Yarethzy had 20 and Yaretzi had 320.

Side by side

  Yarethzy Yaretzi
Total US births 9013,609
Most in one year 201,058
Babies in 2025 under 5422
Estimated living today 9014,000
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20062012
Best rank 6,356th girls302nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked670th
First recorded 20061998
Girls / boys 90 / 013,609 / 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 Yarethzys alive today are over 15; half the Yaretzis are over 10. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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