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Osbaldo vs Osborn

American parents have registered 3,092 Osbaldos since 1880, against 603 Osborns. Osbaldo is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Osbaldo against Osborn, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Osbaldo Osborn

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 112 years in which either name was published, Osbaldo for 68 years and Osborn for 44 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Osbaldo Osborn
Total US births 3,092603
Most in one year 16122
Babies in 2025 146
Estimated living today 3,000210
Median age today 2611
Peak year 20021923
Best rank 976th boys1,644th boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd10,695th
First recorded 19281884
Girls / boys 0 / 3,0920 / 603

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 Osbaldos alive today are over 26; half the Osborns are over 11. That is 15 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.

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