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Yosgart vs Yoshiko

American parents have registered 1,331 Yoshikos since 1880, against 278 Yosgarts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yosgart Yoshiko

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 69 years in which either name was published, Yoshiko for 59 years and Yosgart for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yosgart Yoshiko
Total US births 2781,331
Most in one year 8285
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 280210
Median age today 1648
Peak year 20091921
Best rank 1,809th boys793rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 20081906
Girls / boys 0 / 2781,331 / 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 Yoshikos alive today are over 48; half the Yosgarts are over 16. That is 32 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: Yosgart and Yoshiko.