Joslynn
Joslynn was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,033 among girls’ names; 3,320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Joslynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joslynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joslynn?
#5,033 among girls’ names, 2025
Joslynn fell from #1,750 in 2015 to #5,033 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.2 to 16.2 per million.
209 babies in 2011, the peak
Joslynn peaked in 2011, when 209 girls were given it, #1,171 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,033 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,328 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,669 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,942 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,270 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,077 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,110 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,956 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,007 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,750 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,481 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 189 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 209 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 203 | #1,195 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,435 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,442 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 150 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,913 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,784 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,703 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,993 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,902 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,519 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,721 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,381 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,252 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,747 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,772 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,380 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,067 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,814 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,178 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,760 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,146 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,082 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,574 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,720 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,271 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,718 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,534 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,415 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,307 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,555 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,181 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joslynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joslynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joslynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joslynn, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,320 Americans ever recorded as Joslynn. The median Joslynn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,547 people named Joslynn (2,545 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,043 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 371 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,000 |
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 Joslynn born?
The states with the most babies named Joslynn are Texas, California and Michigan, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 364 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 206 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 196 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 94 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 69 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 59 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Joslynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joslynn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1952 it was given 1.8 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 Joslynn 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 41,050 babies since 1880, Joslynn is the third most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 278 babies (9.4%), again the third 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 Joslynn
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 Joslynn and names like it
- Compare Joslynn and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJoslynn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joslynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Joslynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joslynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.