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Yasmeen vs Yasser

American parents have registered 6,184 Yasmeens since 1880, against 1,219 Yassers. Yasmeen is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yasmeen against Yasser, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yasmeen Yasser

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

Yasmeen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Yasmeen had 86 and Yasser had 57.

Side by side

  Yasmeen Yasser
Total US births 6,1841,219
Most in one year 29661
Babies in 2025 12147
Estimated living today 6,1001,200
Median age today 2412
Peak year 19972016
Best rank 723rd girls2,207th boys
Rank in 2025 1,692nd2,718th
First recorded 19701975
Girls / boys 6,184 / 00 / 1,219

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 Yasmeens alive today are over 24; half the Yassers are over 12. That is 12 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yasmeen Yasser
France 2353,350
England and Wales 556401
Ireland 183
Poland 72

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yasmeen and Yasser.