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Yoselin vs Yoselyn

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 1,797 Yoselyns. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoselin against Yoselyn, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoselin Yoselyn

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 41 years in which either name was published, Yoselin for 39 years and Yoselyn for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yoselyn
Total US births 6,7721,797
Most in one year 677186
Babies in 2025 9512
Estimated living today 6,7001,800
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 475th girls1,308th girls
Rank in 2025 2,002nd8,362nd
First recorded 19821985
Girls / boys 6,772 / 01,797 / 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.

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: Yoselin and Yoselyn.