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Yer vs Yeraldo

American parents have registered 714 Yers since 1880, against 23 Yeraldos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yer Yeraldo

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, Yer for 23 years and Yeraldo for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yer Yeraldo
Total US births 71423
Most in one year 5613
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 69020
Median age today 3618
Peak year 19882007
Best rank 2,274th girls6,262nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19802007
Girls / boys 572 / 1420 / 23

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 Yers alive today are over 36; half the Yeraldos are over 18. That is 18 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: Yer and Yeraldo.