Joselin
Joselin was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,629 among girls’ names; 4,204 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Joselin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joselin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joselin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joselin is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joselin?
#5,629 among girls’ names, 2025
Joselin fell from #2,667 in 2015 to #5,629 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 13.7 per million.
387 babies in 2007, the peak
Joselin peaked in 2007, when 387 girls were given it, #755 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,629 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,247 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,505 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,622 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,445 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,392 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,416 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,586 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,036 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,667 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,845 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,550 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 121 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 169 | #1,365 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 197 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 224 | #1,131 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 224 | #1,147 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 387 | #755 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 298 | #893 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 205 | #1,139 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 193 | #1,167 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 205 | #1,080 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 159 | #1,248 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,389 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,562 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,815 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,807 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,608 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,869 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,874 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,741 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,915 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,176 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,759 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,393 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,839 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,081 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,162 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,761 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,352 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joselin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joselin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joselin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joselin, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,204 Americans ever recorded as Joselin. The median Joselin alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,942 people named Joselin (4,733 women and girls, 209 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 508 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,880 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 736 |
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 Joselin born?
The states with the most babies named Joselin are California, Texas and New York, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 852 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 653 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 252 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 172 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 168 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 152 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 117 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 89 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Joselin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joselin is most over-represented in Texas: since 1967 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Joselin 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 44,132 babies since 1880, Joselin is the third most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 293 babies (7.5%), 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 Joselin
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 Joselin and names like it
- Compare Joselin and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoselin peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joselin since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Joselin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joselin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.