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Yoselin vs Yoskar

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 136 Yoskars. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselin Yoskar

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 2002, when Yoselin had 180 and Yoskar had 17.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yoskar
Total US births 6,772136
Most in one year 67724
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 6,700130
Median age today 1820
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 475th girls3,626th boys
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 19822002
Girls / boys 6,772 / 00 / 136

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 Yoskars alive today are over 20; half the Yoselins are over 18. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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