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Yaretzi vs Yaribeth

American parents have registered 13,609 Yaretzis since 1880, against 33 Yaribeths. Yaretzi is still ahead, with 422 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzi Yaribeth

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 2005, when Yaretzi had 108 and Yaribeth had 14.

Side by side

  Yaretzi Yaribeth
Total US births 13,60933
Most in one year 1,05814
Babies in 2025 422under 5
Estimated living today 14,00030
Median age today 1019
Peak year 20122005
Best rank 302nd girls7,891st girls
Rank in 2025 670thunranked
First recorded 19982005
Girls / boys 13,609 / 033 / 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 Yaribeths alive today are over 19; half the Yaretzis are over 10. That is 9 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: Yaretzi and Yaribeth.