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Yaretzy vs Yari

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 635 Yaris. Yaretzy is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzy Yari

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 31 years in which either name was published, Yaretzy for 23 years and Yari for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Yaretzy Yari
Total US births 2,762635
Most in one year 23053
Babies in 2025 3635
Estimated living today 2,700630
Median age today 129
Peak year 20132024
Best rank 1,073rd girls3,516th girls
Rank in 2025 3,975th4,067th
First recorded 19981980
Girls / boys 2,762 / 0578 / 57

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 Yaretzys alive today are over 12; half the Yaris are over 9. 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: Yaretzy and Yari.