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Yoselin vs Yosgar

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 99 Yosgars. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoselin against Yosgar, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoselin Yosgar

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

Yoselin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Yoselin had 360 and Yosgar had 43.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yosgar
Total US births 6,77299
Most in one year 67743
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 6,700100
Median age today 1816
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 475th girls2,800th boys
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 19822008
Girls / boys 6,772 / 00 / 99

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 Yoselins alive today are over 18; half the Yosgars are over 16. That is 2 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: Yoselin and Yosgar.