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Osmin vs Osmond

American parents have registered 549 Osmins since 1880, against 470 Osmonds. But in 2025 it was Osmond that was commoner, 13 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Osmin against Osmond, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Osmin Osmond

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 71 years in which either name was published, Osmin for 36 years and Osmond for 35 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Osmin Osmond
Total US births 549470
Most in one year 2019
Babies in 2025 1213
Estimated living today 540310
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20062022
Best rank 4,520th boys5,019th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd6,446th
First recorded 19831912
Girls / boys 0 / 5490 / 470

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Osmin and Osmond.