Josslyn
Josslyn was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,287 among girls’ names; 2,171 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Josslyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josslyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josslyn?
#7,287 among girls’ names, 2025
Josslyn fell from #1,751 in 2015 to #7,287 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.2 to 9.3 per million.
179 babies in 2011, the peak
Josslyn peaked in 2011, when 179 girls were given it, #1,318 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,287 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,518 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,690 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,327 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,642 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,361 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,584 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,519 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,685 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,751 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,619 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,608 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,509 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,782 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,714 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,658 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,315 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,841 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,939 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,377 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,777 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,770 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,505 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,892 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,373 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,136 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,818 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,069 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josslyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josslyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josslyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josslyn, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,171 Americans ever recorded as Josslyn. The median Josslyn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,844 people named Josslyn (1,840 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,971 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 80 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 925 |
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 Josslyn born?
The states with the most babies named Josslyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 210 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 157 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 48 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Josslyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Josslyn?
Josslyn is a less common spelling of Joslyn: SSA has recorded 2,171 Josslyn and 11,255 Joslyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,036 babies since 1880, Josslyn is the sixth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 314 babies (4.8%), again the sixth 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 Josslyn
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 Josslyn and names like it
- Compare Josslyn and JoslynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJosslyn peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josslyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Josslyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josslyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.