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Yatzari vs Yatzil

American parents have registered 508 Yatzils since 1880, against 210 Yatzaris. Yatzil is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yatzari against Yatzil, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yatzari Yatzil

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 25 years in which either name was published, Yatzil for 19 years and Yatzari for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yatzari Yatzil
Total US births 210508
Most in one year 6556
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 210510
Median age today 219
Peak year 20002016
Best rank 2,374th girls2,966th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,917th
First recorded 20002004
Girls / boys 210 / 0508 / 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 Yatzaris alive today are over 21; half the Yatzils are over 9. 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.

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