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Yatzil vs Yatziry

American parents have registered 578 Yatzirys since 1880, against 508 Yatzils. But in 2025 it was Yatzil that was commoner, 20 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yatzil Yatziry

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 26 years in which either name was published, Yatziry for 17 years and Yatzil for 9 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Yatzil Yatziry
Total US births 508578
Most in one year 5647
Babies in 2025 208
Estimated living today 510570
Median age today 912
Peak year 20162012
Best rank 2,966th girls3,419th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th10,917th
First recorded 20042000
Girls / boys 508 / 0578 / 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 Yatzirys alive today are over 12; half the Yatzils are over 9. That is 3 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: Yatzil and Yatziry.