In 2025, 19 US girls were named Yelitza, making it the 6,313th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,021 places from #4,292 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 34 girls named Yelitza in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,286, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #3,648 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yelitza in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 1,201 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 341 babies named Yelitza.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US girls were named Yelitza; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.