Josselyn
Josselyn was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,312 among girls’ names; 3,330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Josselyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 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 Josselyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Josselyn mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Josselyn is “a female given name”
Borrowed from English Josselyn.
/xoˈselin/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Josselyn?
#5,312 among girls’ names, 2025
Josselyn fell from #1,990 in 2015 to #5,312 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 56.0 to 14.9 per million.
257 babies in 2007, the peak
Josselyn peaked in 2007, when 257 girls were given it, #1,028 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,312 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,255 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,032 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,052 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,314 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,835 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,578 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,079 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,948 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,990 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,687 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,638 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,506 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,483 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,388 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,399 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 188 | #1,317 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 257 | #1,028 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 172 | #1,351 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,683 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,740 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,034 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,292 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,308 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,517 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,621 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,707 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,600 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,134 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,853 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,678 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,885 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,050 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,555 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,730 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,556 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,676 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,961 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,338 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josselyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josselyn 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 Josselyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josselyn, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,330 Americans ever recorded as Josselyn. The median Josselyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,231 people named Josselyn (3,213 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,029 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 411 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 971 |
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 Josselyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,540 | 1.5× |
Where Josselyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Josselyn is most over-represented in California: since 1974 it was given 1.7 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 Josselyn 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 43,848 babies since 1880, Josselyn is the fourth most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 293 babies (8.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Josselyn
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 Josselyn and names like it
- Compare Josselyn and JoselynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosselyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josselyn since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Josselyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Josselyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josselyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.