Yalitza
Yalitza was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,880 among girls’ names; 1,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Yalitza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yalitza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yalitza?
#11,880 among girls’ names, 2025
Yalitza fell from #8,420 in 2015 to #11,880 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.0 per million.
159 babies in 2019, the peak
Yalitza peaked in 2019, when 159 girls were given it, #1,414 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,880 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,416 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,735 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,370 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,235 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,396 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 159 | #1,414 | 94.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,511 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,657 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,967 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,420 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,701 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,878 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,126 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,171 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,402 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,370 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,871 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,977 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,227 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,989 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,540 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,977 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,122 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,073 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,792 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,222 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,950 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #5,002 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,552 | 28.5 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,210 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,106 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,941 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,444 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,102 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,853 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,147 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,656 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,602 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,145 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,124 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,985 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,031 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,415 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,373 | 25.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yalitza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yalitza has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yalitza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yalitza, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,043 Americans ever recorded as Yalitza. The median Yalitza alive today is 18 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 822 people named Yalitza (821 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 894 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 285 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 403 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Yalitza born?
The states with the most babies named Yalitza are California, Texas and New York, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 151 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 82 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 26 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 7 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yalitza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yalitza is most over-represented in California: since 1981 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yalitza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,448 babies since 1880, Yalitza is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 27 babies (30%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yalitza
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yalitza and names like it
- Compare Yalitza and YelitzaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYalitza peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yalitza since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Yalitza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yalitza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.