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Osbaldo vs Osburn

American parents have registered 3,092 Osbaldos since 1880, against 51 Osburns. Osbaldo is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Osbaldo Osburn

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 79 years in which either name was published, Osbaldo for 71 years and Osburn for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Osbaldo Osburn
Total US births 3,09251
Most in one year 16110
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 3,0002
Median age today 2686
Peak year 20021916
Best rank 976th boys2,543rd boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rdunranked
First recorded 19281916
Girls / boys 0 / 3,0920 / 51

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 Osburns alive today are over 86; half the Osbaldos are over 26. That is 60 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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