Jolyn
Jolyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,484 among girls’ names; 1,984 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Jolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 36 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jolyn?
#12,484 among girls’ names, 2025
Jolyn fell from #10,458 in 2015 to #12,484 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 4.4 per million.
51 babies in 1969, the peak
Jolyn peaked in 1969, when 51 girls were given it, #1,696 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,484 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,363 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,209 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,199 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,164 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,150 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,294 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,437 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,458 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,822 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,589 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,408 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,997 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,471 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,499 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,711 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,751 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,299 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,394 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,081 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,676 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,611 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,110 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,257 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,001 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,749 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,005 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,635 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,815 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,130 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,893 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,290 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,707 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,757 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,415 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,253 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,207 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,811 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,903 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,268 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,527 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,390 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,388 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,457 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,446 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,098 | 29.4 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,196 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,149 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,817 | 35.0 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,008 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,242 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,073 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,016 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,139 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,696 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,762 | 27.4 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,345 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,966 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,429 | 14.2 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,761 | 23.2 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,933 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,926 | 18.3 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,705 | 22.3 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,799 | 19.8 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,834 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,832 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,824 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,847 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,858 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,921 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,900 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,661 | 18.9 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,035 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,486 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,570 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,238 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,392 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,325 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,517 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,885 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,427 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,565 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,181 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,684 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,563 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,563 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,524 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolyn, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,984 Americans ever recorded as Jolyn. The median Jolyn alive today is 50 years old; half are between 36 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 1,869 people named Jolyn (1,849 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,819 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 454 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 588 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 385 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 229 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,311 babies since 1880, Jolyn is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 60 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jolyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jolyn and names like it
- Compare Jolyn and JoleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJolyn peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Jolyn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jolyn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.