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Yatzary vs Yatzil

American parents have registered 508 Yatzils since 1880, against 92 Yatzarys. Yatzil is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yatzary against Yatzil, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yatzary 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 24 years in which either name was published, Yatzil for 21 years and Yatzary for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yatzary Yatzil
Total US births 92508
Most in one year 1956
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 90510
Median age today 149
Peak year 20002016
Best rank 5,705th girls2,966th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,917th
First recorded 20002004
Girls / boys 92 / 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 Yatzarys alive today are over 14; half the Yatzils are over 9. That is 5 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: Yatzary and Yatzil.