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Yeraldin vs Yerik

American parents have registered 1,306 Yeriks since 1880, against 368 Yeraldins. Yerik is still ahead, with 37 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yeraldin against Yerik, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yeraldin Yerik

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, Yerik for 20 years and Yeraldin for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yeraldin Yerik
Total US births 3681,306
Most in one year 27128
Babies in 2025 537
Estimated living today 3601,300
Median age today 179
Peak year 19882011
Best rank 3,483rd girls1,327th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd3,181st
First recorded 19882004
Girls / boys 368 / 00 / 1,306

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 Yeraldins alive today are over 17; half the Yeriks are over 9. That is 8 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: Yeraldin and Yerik.