Joseline
Joseline was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,401 among girls’ names; 3,798 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,750 Americans named Joseline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joseline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joseline?
#4,401 among girls’ names, 2025
Joseline fell from #2,727 in 2015 to #4,401 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 19.9 per million.
277 babies in 2007, the peak
Joseline peaked in 2007, when 277 girls were given it, #971 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,401 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,215 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,080 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,919 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,840 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,228 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,196 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,854 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,173 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,721 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,727 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,335 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,075 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,580 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,902 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,788 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,666 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 199 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 277 | #971 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,115 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,223 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 208 | #1,098 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 184 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 170 | #1,200 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 183 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,371 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,465 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,512 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,520 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,453 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,540 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,875 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,781 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,110 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,582 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,556 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,752 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,295 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,561 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,261 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joseline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joseline 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 Joseline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joseline, and how old are they?
3,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,798 Americans ever recorded as Joseline. The median Joseline alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,114 people named Joseline (5,077 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 569 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 651 |
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 Joseline born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,302 | 2.1× |
Where Joseline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joseline is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.1 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 Joseline 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 6,087 babies since 1880, Joseline is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 49 babies (65%), again the most given.
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 Joseline
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 Joseline and names like it
- Compare Joseline and JoselyneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoseline peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joseline since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Joseline.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joseline alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.