Josilyn
Josilyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,983 among girls’ names; 1,132 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Josilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josilyn?
#15,983 among girls’ names, 2025
Josilyn fell from #4,912 in 2015 to #15,983 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 3.1 per million.
69 babies in 2006, the peak
Josilyn peaked in 2006, when 69 girls were given it, #2,613 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,983 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,267 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,214 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,114 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,272 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,210 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,279 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,338 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,394 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,959 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,912 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,593 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,099 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,747 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,241 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,770 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,981 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,547 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,767 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,613 | 36.3 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,883 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,525 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,380 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,486 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,610 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,054 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,134 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,289 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,623 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,107 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,753 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,906 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,307 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,817 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,760 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,544 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,333 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,740 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,213 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,948 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,717 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,959 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,109 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,071 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,883 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,907 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,173 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josilyn, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,132 Americans ever recorded as Josilyn. The median Josilyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 959 people named Josilyn (952 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,074 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 687 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 249 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,751 babies since 1880, Josilyn is the eighth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 304 babies (1.6%), again the eighth 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 Josilyn
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 Josilyn and names like it
- Compare Josilyn and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosilyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Josilyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josilyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.