Joshlyn
Joshlyn was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,749 among girls’ names; 1,304 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Joshlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joshlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joshlyn?
#9,749 among girls’ names, 2025
Joshlyn fell from #4,779 in 2015 to #9,749 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.2 per million.
55 babies in 2008, the peak
Joshlyn peaked in 2008, when 55 girls were given it, #3,098 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,749 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,263 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,697 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,834 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,885 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,464 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,166 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,647 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,934 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,764 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,779 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,089 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,910 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,332 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,958 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,241 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,910 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,098 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,680 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,588 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,303 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,775 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,205 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,920 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,386 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,295 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,504 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,179 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,061 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,765 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,709 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,298 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,714 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,595 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,760 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,835 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,819 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,516 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,670 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,157 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,659 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,053 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,958 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,049 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,394 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,586 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,414 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,332 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,882 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,624 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,496 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,337 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,962 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,848 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,227 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,219 | 2.6 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,494 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,712 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,299 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,914 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,894 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,332 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,682 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,862 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joshlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joshlyn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joshlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joshlyn, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,304 Americans ever recorded as Joshlyn. The median Joshlyn alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,095 people named Joshlyn (1,046 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 54 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 349 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 593 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 206 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,248 babies since 1880, Joshlyn is the most given (58% 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 Joshlyn
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 Joshlyn and names like it
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- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Joshlyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joshlyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.