Jolin — #15590 US unisex name
425 babies named Jolin in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 12% of names given to girls today.
39% of everyone ever named Jolin was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Jolin in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jolin
The Social Security Administration has registered 425 babies named Jolin between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jolin currently holds the #15590 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Jolin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 47 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jolin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 166 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jolin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 85 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Jolin in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jolin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 425 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jolin at a glance
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Current rank
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Jolin popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1961
- Peak year (2008)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
Currently ranks #15590 among girls.
425 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 30 births in a single year.
Jolin popularity over time — boys
47 total births recorded since 2001 (Jolin as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jolin accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jolin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 166 births that decade — 39% of Jolin's all-time total
Jolin decade highlights
- Peak decade 166 births
- Runner-up 148 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jolin's strongest decade
166 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Jolin by state
Where Jolin concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 85 | 20.0% |
| #2 | California | | 46 | 10.8% |
85 of 425 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 20.0% of nationwide
- California 10.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 20.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.