Joselyn
Joselyn was given to 142 girls in 2025, #1,504 among girls’ names; 18,219 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,900 Americans named Joselyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joselyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joselyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joselyn 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 Joselyn?
#1,504 among girls’ names, 2025
Joselyn fell from #688 in 2015 to #1,504 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.23 to 0.09 per 1,000.
1,577 babies in 2007, the peak
Joselyn peaked in 2007, when 1,577 girls were given it, #221 among girls’ names. The 142 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 142 | #1,504 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,333 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,329 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,123 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 217 | #1,116 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 252 | #1,022 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 279 | #952 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 333 | #820 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 388 | #735 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 416 | #688 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 464 | #618 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 648 | #474 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 678 | #461 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 864 | #372 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 835 | #382 | 0.47 |
| 2009 | 981 | #336 | 0.53 |
| 2008 | 1,086 | #308 | 0.57 |
| 2007 | 1,577 | #221 | 0.82 |
| 2006 | 1,054 | #314 | 0.55 |
| 2005 | 762 | #409 | 0.41 |
| 2004 | 741 | #412 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 625 | #475 | 0.34 |
| 2002 | 506 | #545 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 412 | #611 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 381 | #650 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 285 | #773 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 278 | #774 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 268 | #779 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 319 | #684 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 240 | #819 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 285 | #732 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 246 | #812 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 221 | #889 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 140 | #1,221 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 147 | #1,169 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,573 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,769 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,572 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,328 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,593 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,406 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,256 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,040 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,823 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,837 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,319 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,532 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,603 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,687 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,925 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,975 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,209 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,704 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,220 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,118 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,030 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,331 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,772 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,629 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,720 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,539 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,532 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joselyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joselyn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joselyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joselyn, and how old are they?
17,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 18,219 Americans ever recorded as Joselyn. The median Joselyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 16,968 people named Joselyn (16,853 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,931 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 216 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,880 |
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 Joselyn born?
The states with the most babies named Joselyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 72% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,202 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,432 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,085 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,645 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,565 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,111 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #850 | 0.5× |
Where Joselyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joselyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1933 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 Joselyn 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, Joselyn is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 142 of their 314 babies (45%), 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 Joselyn
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 Joselyn and names like it
- Compare Joselyn and JoslynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoselyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joselyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Joselyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joselyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.