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Yurem vs Yuriko

American parents have registered 938 Yurems since 1880, against 761 Yurikos. Yurem is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yurem against Yuriko, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yurem Yuriko

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 66 years in which either name was published, Yuriko for 47 years and Yurem for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yurem Yuriko
Total US births 938761
Most in one year 20642
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 930370
Median age today 1631
Peak year 20071923
Best rank 955th boys1,197th girls
Rank in 2025 6,446thunranked
First recorded 20071914
Girls / boys 0 / 938761 / 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 Yurikos alive today are over 31; half the Yurems are over 16. That is 15 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: Yurem and Yuriko.