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Yovani vs Yovany

American parents have registered 2,107 Yovanis since 1880, against 715 Yovanys. Yovani is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yovani against Yovany, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yovani Yovany

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

Yovani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Yovani had 7 and Yovany had 7.

Side by side

  Yovani Yovany
Total US births 2,107715
Most in one year 11545
Babies in 2025 3413
Estimated living today 2,100700
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20052010
Best rank 1,315th boys2,682nd boys
Rank in 2025 3,379th6,446th
First recorded 19731983
Girls / boys 16 / 2,0910 / 715

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.

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: Yovani and Yovany.