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Yaretzy vs Yaribeth

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 33 Yaribeths. Yaretzy is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzy 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

Yaretzy 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 Yaretzy had 28 and Yaribeth had 14.

Side by side

  Yaretzy Yaribeth
Total US births 2,76233
Most in one year 23014
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 2,70030
Median age today 1219
Peak year 20132005
Best rank 1,073rd girls7,891st girls
Rank in 2025 3,975thunranked
First recorded 19982005
Girls / boys 2,762 / 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 Yaretzys are over 12. That is 7 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: Yaretzy and Yaribeth.