Humanverse

Yoselin vs Yossi

American parents have registered 6,772 Yoselins since 1880, against 584 Yossis. Yoselin is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselin Yossi

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 2025, when Yoselin had 95 and Yossi had 58.

Side by side

  Yoselin Yossi
Total US births 6,772584
Most in one year 67758
Babies in 2025 9558
Estimated living today 6,700580
Median age today 187
Peak year 20072025
Best rank 475th girls2,363rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,002nd2,363rd
First recorded 19821990
Girls / boys 6,772 / 00 / 584

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 Yoselins alive today are over 18; half the Yossis are over 7. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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