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Yoseline vs Yoshio

American parents have registered 1,175 Yoshios since 1880, against 809 Yoselines. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoseline against Yoshio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoseline Yoshio

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 73 years in which either name was published, Yoshio for 44 years and Yoseline for 29 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Yoseline Yoshio
Total US births 8091,175
Most in one year 9973
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 800190
Median age today 1934
Peak year 20071921
Best rank 2,059th girls790th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19921910
Girls / boys 809 / 00 / 1,175

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 Yoshios alive today are over 34; half the Yoselines are over 19. 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: Yoseline and Yoshio.