Girls' name · since 1955
Jolynda
86 babies named Jolynda in U.S. Social Security records since 1955, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 86
- total births
- 1955–1980
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 48%
- born in that decade
Jolynda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 86 have been recorded since 1955.
Jolynda has 86 recorded births among girls since 1955, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1955 to 1980.
- 86 total births
- 1955–1980 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 48% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jolynda's 86 recorded births place it above 60% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jolynda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jolynda's SSA record in two at 1970 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1955, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1979 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jolynda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1955–1980
- Peak year (1979)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Jolynda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Jolynda's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Jolynda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 10
1950s
10 births
- 1960s
1960s
30 births
- 1970s
1970s
41 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 41 births (48% of all-time use).
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1955–1980 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jolynda: Baby Name Since 1955 - 86 Births, Peak 1979." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jolynda. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jolynda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.