Yaretzy
Feminine
Yaretzy is a Mexican name of recent coinage, and the Nahuatl meaning circulated for it is not supported by anything in the language.
How old is the name Yaretzy?
Yaretzy first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Yaretzy is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,700 people named Yaretzy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yaretzy most popular?
Yaretzy peaked in 2013, reaching #1073 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 2,902 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yaretzy
Ours, offered as ours. Mexican naming since the 1990s has produced a set of names presented as Nahuatl — Yaretzi, Itzayana, Citlali, Xareni — and they are not all the same. Citlali is a genuine Nahuatl word for a star. Yaretzi is not: the gloss attached to it in name lists corresponds to nothing in the language. That does not make it a lesser name; it makes it a Mexican name with an indigenous aspiration, which is a real and meaningful thing to be. Saying so is more respectful than repeating an invention.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented source. The gloss you will always be loved, attributed to Nahuatl, appears in modern name lists and corresponds to no recorded Nahuatl construction. The name's record is Mexican and begins in the 1990s.
Pronouncing Yaretzy
yah-RET-see
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yaretzy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most girls named
- 2013230 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1073reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −23.4%36 in 2025, from 47
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yaretzy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yaretzi in Spanish — spelling variant
- Yaritzy in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Illinois.
Yaretzys among us
people named Yaretzy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Yaretzy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yaretzy
- #3975
- Yaretzy on the 2025 chart
- #546
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yaretzy went to 36 girls in 2025, but Yaretzi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 458, which makes it the 546th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,429 places above the chart.
- Yaretzi422
- Yaretzy36
About 1 girl in 3,509 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Yaretzy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Monet test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yaretzy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Monet climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Monet's path sketches the road Yaretzy is walking now.
Yaretzy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yaretzy is headed
Yaretzy is easing off slowly — about 31% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yaretzy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yaretzy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It belongs clearly to a living Mexican naming tradition.
- Yari is a warm short form already in use.
- The Nahuatl meaning circulated for it is not supported, and it is better to know that first.
- Yaretzi, Yaretzy and Yaritza are all in use and none is dominant.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yaretzys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Yaretzy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yaretzy?
- Yaretzy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Yaretzi is the more common one — 422 births in 2025 against 36 for Yaretzy.
- How popular is the name Yaretzy in 2025?
- Yaretzy ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yaretzy?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Yaretzy — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yaretzy with classmates?
- Yaretzy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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