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Yuri vs Yurico

American parents have registered 6,224 Yuris since 1880, against 45 Yuricos. Yuri is still ahead, with 227 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yuri against Yurico, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yuri Yurico

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

Yuri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Yuri had 128 and Yurico had 21.

Side by side

  Yuri Yurico
Total US births 6,22445
Most in one year 27321
Babies in 2025 227under 5
Estimated living today 6,00040
Median age today 1736
Peak year 20221988
Best rank 1,309th girls4,172nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,525thunranked
First recorded 19191988
Girls / boys 3,769 / 2,45545 / 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 Yuricos alive today are over 36; half the Yuris are over 17. 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: Yuri and Yurico.