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Yoselin vs Yoshie

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 395 Yoshies. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselin Yoshie

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 63 years in which either name was published, Yoselin for 41 years and Yoshie for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yoshie
Total US births 6,772395
Most in one year 67738
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 6,70014
Median age today 1894
Peak year 20071924
Best rank 475th girls1,301st girls
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 19821914
Girls / boys 6,772 / 0395 / 0

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 Yoshies alive today are over 94; half the Yoselins are over 18. That is 76 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 Yoshie.