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Yoselin vs Yoshigei

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 21 Yoshigeis. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselin Yoshigei

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

Yoselin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Yoselin had 484 and Yoshigei had 21.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yoshigei
Total US births 6,77221
Most in one year 67721
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 6,70020
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 475th girls6,125th girls
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 19822006
Girls / boys 6,772 / 021 / 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.

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