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Yuren vs Yuriko

American parents have registered 761 Yurikos since 1880, against 57 Yurens. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yuren against Yuriko, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yuren 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 58 years in which either name was published, Yuriko for 55 years and Yuren for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Yuren Yuriko
Total US births 57761
Most in one year 2842
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 60370
Median age today 1731
Peak year 20081923
Best rank 3,744th boys1,197th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 20071914
Girls / boys 0 / 57761 / 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 Yurens are over 17. That is 14 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: Yuren and Yuriko.