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Yoselyn vs Yoskar

American parents have registered 1,797 Yoselyns since 1880, against 136 Yoskars. Yoselyn is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselyn Yoskar

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

Yoselyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Yoselyn had 44 and Yoskar had 17.

Side by side

  Yoselyn Yoskar
Total US births 1,797136
Most in one year 18624
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 1,800130
Median age today 1720
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 1,308th girls3,626th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19852002
Girls / boys 1,797 / 00 / 136

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 Yoskars alive today are over 20; half the Yoselyns are over 17. That is 3 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: Yoselyn and Yoskar.