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Yuval vs Yuvraj

American parents have registered 1,253 Yuvrajs since 1880, against 633 Yuvals. Yuvraj is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yuval against Yuvraj, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yuval Yuvraj

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 45 years in which either name was published, Yuvraj for 24 years and Yuval for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yuval Yuvraj
Total US births 6331,253
Most in one year 3274
Babies in 2025 1455
Estimated living today 6201,200
Median age today 1910
Peak year 20072016
Best rank 4,808th boys1,959th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th2,451st
First recorded 19671993
Girls / boys 224 / 4090 / 1,253

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 Yuvals alive today are over 19; half the Yuvrajs are over 10. That is 9 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Yuval Yuvraj
England and Wales 161,677
Poland 674
France 535

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yuval and Yuvraj.