Osiel vs Osiris

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Osiel Osiris

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 56 years in which either name was published, Osiris for 37 years and Osiel for 19 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

• 1970–1972 Osiris ahead
• 1973–1989 Osiel ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1990–2002 Osiris ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2003–2010 Osiel ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2011–2025 Osiris ahead

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Osiels alive today are over 16; half the Osirises are over 9. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Osiel Texas (7.9×), California (2.5×), Colorado (1.1×)
• Osiris Nevada (5.3×), California (3.0×), Colorado (2.7×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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