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Yoanna vs Yoatzi

American parents have registered 673 Yoannas since 1880, against 105 Yoatzis. Yoanna is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoanna against Yoatzi, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoanna Yoatzi

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 43 years in which either name was published, Yoanna for 38 years and Yoatzi for 5 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yoanna Yoatzi
Total US births 673105
Most in one year 3725
Babies in 2025 85
Estimated living today 670100
Median age today 203
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 4,131st girls5,172nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th14,942nd
First recorded 19802020
Girls / boys 673 / 0105 / 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 Yoannas alive today are over 20; half the Yoatzis are over 3. That is 17 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: Yoanna and Yoatzi.