Josalyn
Josalyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,486 among girls’ names; 2,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Josalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josalyn?
#12,486 among girls’ names, 2025
Josalyn fell from #3,274 in 2015 to #12,486 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 4.4 per million.
113 babies in 2009, the peak
Josalyn peaked in 2009, when 113 girls were given it, #1,870 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,486 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,672 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,694 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,835 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,840 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,861 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,485 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,885 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,453 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,554 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,274 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,747 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,786 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,385 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,181 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,917 | 59.1 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,870 | 61.5 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,983 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,027 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,335 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,973 | 52.5 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,295 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,328 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,103 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,822 | 28.9 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,294 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,594 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,288 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,170 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,382 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,708 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,257 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,302 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,716 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,656 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,378 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,509 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,380 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,042 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,824 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,343 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,558 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,736 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,795 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,102 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,608 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,112 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,434 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,034 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,906 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,672 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,845 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,225 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,011 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,377 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,247 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,330 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,585 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josalyn, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,120 Americans ever recorded as Josalyn. The median Josalyn alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,840 people named Josalyn (1,835 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 384 |
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).
Where are babies named Josalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Josalyn are California, Texas and Ohio, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 100 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 94 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Josalyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,036 babies since 1880, Josalyn is the seventh most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 314 babies (2.2%), the eighth 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 Josalyn
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 Josalyn and names like it
- Compare Josalyn and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosalyn peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Josalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.