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Yaretzy vs Yariel

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 2,038 Yariels. But in 2025 it was Yariel that was commoner, 76 babies to 36.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzy Yariel

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 33 years in which either name was published, Yaretzy for 21 years and Yariel for 12 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Yaretzy Yariel
Total US births 2,7622,038
Most in one year 230131
Babies in 2025 3676
Estimated living today 2,7002,000
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20132010
Best rank 1,073rd girls1,349th boys
Rank in 2025 3,975th1,992nd
First recorded 19981991
Girls / boys 2,762 / 010 / 2,028

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.

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 Yariel.