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Yaretzy vs Yaron

American parents have registered 2,762 Yaretzys since 1880, against 295 Yarons. Yaretzy is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaretzy Yaron

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 47 years in which either name was published, Yaretzy for 28 years and Yaron for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yaretzy Yaron
Total US births 2,762295
Most in one year 23014
Babies in 2025 3610
Estimated living today 2,700280
Median age today 1226
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 1,073rd girls5,997th boys
Rank in 2025 3,975th7,679th
First recorded 19981967
Girls / boys 2,762 / 00 / 295

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 Yarons alive today are over 26; half the Yaretzys are over 12. That is 14 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 Yaron.