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Yoselyn vs Yoseph

American parents have registered 1,797 Yoselyns since 1880, against 958 Yosephs. But in 2025 it was Yoseph that was commoner, 20 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yoselyn 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, Yoselyn for 27 years and Yoseph for 21 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Yoselyn Yoseph
Total US births 1,797958
Most in one year 18637
Babies in 2025 1220
Estimated living today 1,800940
Median age today 1719
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 1,308th girls2,846th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd4,857th
First recorded 19851975
Girls / boys 1,797 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Yosephs 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: Yoselyn and Yoseph.