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Yoselin vs Yoseph

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 958 Yosephs. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselin Yoseph

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 48 years in which either name was published, Yoselin for 35 years and Yoseph for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yoseph
Total US births 6,772958
Most in one year 67737
Babies in 2025 9520
Estimated living today 6,700940
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 475th girls2,846th boys
Rank in 2025 2,002nd4,857th
First recorded 19821975
Girls / boys 6,772 / 00 / 958

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 Yoseph.