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Yeimi vs Yeiren

American parents have registered 761 Yeimis since 1880, against 174 Yeirens. Yeimi is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yeimi Yeiren

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 35 years in which either name was published, Yeimi for 34 years and Yeiren for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yeimi Yeiren
Total US births 761174
Most in one year 5317
Babies in 2025 2413
Estimated living today 760170
Median age today 157
Peak year 20062015
Best rank 3,136th girls5,289th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th6,446th
First recorded 19882011
Girls / boys 761 / 00 / 174

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 Yeimis alive today are over 15; half the Yeirens are over 7. That is 8 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: Yeimi and Yeiren.