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Yaretzy vs Yarishna

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 46 Yarishnas. Yaretzy is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzy Yarishna

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 2019, when Yaretzy had 109 and Yarishna had 28.

Side by side

  Yaretzy Yarishna
Total US births 2,76246
Most in one year 23028
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 2,70050
Median age today 126
Peak year 20132019
Best rank 1,073rd girls4,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,975thunranked
First recorded 19982018
Girls / boys 2,762 / 046 / 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 Yaretzys alive today are over 12; half the Yarishnas are over 6. That is 6 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 Yarishna.