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Yeneisy vs Yenifer

American parents have registered 1,169 Yenifers since 1880, against 33 Yeneisys. Yenifer is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yeneisy Yenifer

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

Yenifer has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1989 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Yeneisy had 27 and Yenifer had 62.

Side by side

  Yeneisy Yenifer
Total US births 331,169
Most in one year 2780
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 301,200
Median age today 1822
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 5,230th girls2,353rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,838th
First recorded 20071989
Girls / boys 33 / 01,169 / 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 Yenifers alive today are over 22; half the Yeneisys are over 18. That is 4 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: Yeneisy and Yenifer.