Joshalyn
Joshalyn was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 184 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,754, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1992, the peak
Joshalyn peaked in 1992, when 12 girls were given it, #7,238 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,754 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,176 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,884 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,375 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,852 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,916 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,040 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,761 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,323 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,937 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #12,825 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,171 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,796 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,685 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,377 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,256 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,965 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,065 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,238 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,710 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,701 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,332 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,950 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,947 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,403 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,121 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joshalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshalyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 181 Americans named Joshalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 199 people named Joshalyn (196 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,248 babies since 1880, Joshalyn is the third most given (8.2% of them).
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 Joshalyn
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 Joshalyn and names like it
- Compare Joshalyn and JoshlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJoshalyn peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Joshalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joshalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.