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Josilynn

Girls’ name Recorded 1996-2023

Josilynn was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

No sourced meaning is on record for Josilynn: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Josilynn each year, first recorded in 1996
Josilynn, 1990-2025; highest in 2012.510152025199019952000200520102015202020252012 peak: 21
Josilynn, 1990-2025; highest in 2012.510152025199019952000200520102015202020252012 peak: 21
Josilynn, 1990-2025; highest in 2012.5101520251990201020252012 peak: 21
Josilynn, 1990-2025; highest in 2012.5101520251990201020252012 peak: 21

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Josilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Josilynn?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,270, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

21 babies in 2012, the peak

Josilynn peaked in 2012, when 21 girls were given it, #6,213 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Josilynn by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
20235#16,2703.1
202010#9,8636.2
20196#14,5993.6
20185#16,7722.9
20178#12,1404.6
20156#15,3603.4
201410#10,5085.6
201311#9,8876.3
201221#6,21311.9
201111#10,0256.3
Every recorded year (24)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
201020#6,49011.3
200916#7,8598.7
200814#8,7147.4
200713#9,2516.8
200617#7,3018.9
200513#8,5627.0
200414#8,0007.6
200310#9,9985.5
200213#8,0247.2
20016#14,3383.3
20005#16,1722.8
19997#11,9343.9
19978#10,2294.6
19965#14,5092.9

Download Josilynn’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Josilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Josilynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Josilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Josilynn, and how old are they?

An estimated 252 Americans named Josilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Josilynn (232 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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

Josilynn is a less common spelling of Josilyn: SSA has recorded 254 Josilynn and 1,132 Josilyn since 1880.

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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Josilynn

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1990-2025
Chloey1,216
Anushka1,703
Abbygail3,633
Abygail2,860
Reaghan1,116
Kenadi1,583

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.

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