Joslyn
Joslyn was given to 63 girls in 2025, #2,732 among girls’ names; 11,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Joslyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joslyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joslyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joslyn 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 Joslyn?
#2,732 among girls’ names, 2025
Joslyn fell from #870 in 2015 to #2,732 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.18 to 0.04 per 1,000.
461 babies in 2010, the peak
Joslyn peaked in 2010, when 461 girls were given it, #641 among girls’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,732 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,256 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,914 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,679 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,400 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 224 | #1,099 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 285 | #929 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 282 | #961 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 321 | #870 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 319 | #863 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 385 | #717 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 416 | #678 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 448 | #637 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 461 | #641 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 432 | #674 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 420 | #711 | 0.22 |
| 2007 | 420 | #694 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 399 | #714 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 372 | #729 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 323 | #789 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 317 | #780 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 294 | #798 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,026 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,121 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,102 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 189 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,066 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 194 | #979 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,203 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,118 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,274 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,267 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 151 | #1,137 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,300 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,270 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,472 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,500 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,308 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 94 | #1,296 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,312 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,331 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,463 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 101 | #1,233 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 123 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,768 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,009 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,428 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,370 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,373 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,276 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,546 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,638 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,966 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,184 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,259 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,566 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,888 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joslyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joslyn has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Joslyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joslyn, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,255 Americans ever recorded as Joslyn. The median Joslyn alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 9,915 people named Joslyn (9,719 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,378 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 707 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,880 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,740 |
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 Joslyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 6 | #1,344 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,217 | 0.7× |
Where Joslyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joslyn is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1930 it was given 3.1 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 Joslyn 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, Joslyn is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 314 babies (20%), again the second 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 Joslyn
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 Joslyn and names like it
- Compare Joslyn and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJoslyn peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joslyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Joslyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joslyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.