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Yoseline vs Yoselyn

American parents have registered 1,797 Yoselyns since 1880, against 809 Yoselines. Yoselyn is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yoseline against Yoselyn, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yoseline 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 38 years in which either name was published, Yoselyn for 35 years and Yoseline for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Yoseline Yoselyn
Total US births 8091,797
Most in one year 99186
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 8001,800
Median age today 1917
Peak year 20072007
Best rank 2,059th girls1,308th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,362nd
First recorded 19921985
Girls / boys 809 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Yoselines alive today are over 19; half the Yoselyns are over 17. That is 2 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.

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