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Yuleini vs Yulisa

American parents have registered 2,026 Yulisas since 1880, against 24 Yuleinis. Yulisa is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yuleini against Yulisa, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yuleini Yulisa

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

Yulisa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Yuleini had 19 and Yulisa had 22.

Side by side

  Yuleini Yulisa
Total US births 242,026
Most in one year 19198
Babies in 2025 under 513
Estimated living today 202,000
Median age today 221
Peak year 20231997
Best rank 6,169th girls985th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,885th
First recorded 20231979
Girls / boys 24 / 02,026 / 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 Yulisas alive today are over 21; half the Yuleinis are over 2. That is 19 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: Yuleini and Yulisa.