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Yulian vs Yulissa

American parents have registered 4,151 Yulissas since 1880, against 641 Yulians. Yulissa is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yulian against Yulissa, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yulian Yulissa

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

Yulissa has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Yulian had 60 and Yulissa had 64.

Side by side

  Yulian Yulissa
Total US births 6414,151
Most in one year 60612
Babies in 2025 3948
Estimated living today 6404,100
Median age today 820
Peak year 20241997
Best rank 2,345th boys424th girls
Rank in 2025 3,089th3,249th
First recorded 19961974
Girls / boys 0 / 6414,151 / 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 Yulissas alive today are over 20; half the Yulians are over 8. That is 12 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: Yulian and Yulissa.