Joycelyn
Joycelyn was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,969 among girls’ names; 6,622 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,950 Americans named Joycelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 32 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joycelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joycelyn?
#6,969 among girls’ names, 2025
Joycelyn rose from #7,428 in 2015 to #6,969 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 10.0 per million.
156 babies in 1955, the peak
Joycelyn peaked in 1955, when 156 girls were given it, #764 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,969 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,167 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,527 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,970 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,643 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,553 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,821 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,931 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,104 | 20.9 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,207 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,428 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,091 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,582 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,171 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,126 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,345 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,412 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,549 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,405 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,448 | 40.0 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,067 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,526 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,206 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,032 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,332 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,609 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,711 | 28.8 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,629 | 29.4 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,207 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,352 | 31.9 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,889 | 42.1 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,909 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,804 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,877 | 40.7 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,736 | 44.3 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,265 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,703 | 43.4 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,560 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,106 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,824 | 36.1 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,842 | 35.4 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,467 | 46.9 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,614 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,860 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,994 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,875 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,989 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,846 | 35.3 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,745 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,688 | 39.6 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,660 | 39.8 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,760 | 34.8 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,074 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,602 | 37.5 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,433 | 43.9 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,411 | 42.3 |
| 1969 | 93 | #1,157 | 55.1 |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,085 | 58.5 |
| 1967 | 76 | #1,224 | 46.0 |
| 1966 | 91 | #1,107 | 53.8 |
| 1965 | 100 | #1,051 | 56.7 |
| 1964 | 89 | #1,167 | 47.0 |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,294 | 37.9 |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,140 | 46.8 |
| 1961 | 106 | #1,064 | 52.5 |
| 1960 | 80 | #1,222 | 39.6 |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,082 | 47.9 |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,097 | 45.7 |
| 1957 | 125 | #914 | 61.1 |
| 1956 | 149 | #813 | 74.2 |
| 1955 | 156 | #764 | 79.8 |
| 1954 | 108 | #929 | 55.6 |
| 1953 | 108 | #904 | 57.4 |
| 1952 | 105 | #901 | 56.6 |
| 1951 | 99 | #921 | 55.0 |
| 1950 | 89 | #950 | 52.0 |
| 1949 | 83 | #987 | 48.5 |
| 1948 | 79 | #980 | 46.5 |
| 1947 | 81 | #980 | 45.7 |
| 1946 | 77 | #948 | 49.0 |
| 1945 | 69 | #909 | 52.8 |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,111 | 37.7 |
| 1943 | 66 | #981 | 47.3 |
| 1942 | 78 | #878 | 57.7 |
| 1941 | 86 | #781 | 71.2 |
| 1940 | 67 | #870 | 58.6 |
| 1939 | 67 | #859 | 61.1 |
| 1938 | 75 | #817 | 68.0 |
| 1937 | 85 | #736 | 79.9 |
| 1936 | 78 | #765 | 75.0 |
| 1935 | 91 | #708 | 86.8 |
| 1934 | 71 | #799 | 68.0 |
| 1933 | 76 | #758 | 75.4 |
| 1932 | 59 | #919 | 55.3 |
| 1931 | 79 | #754 | 74.2 |
| 1930 | 68 | #872 | 60.4 |
| 1929 | 56 | #963 | 50.2 |
| 1928 | 52 | #1,044 | 45.1 |
| 1927 | 56 | #1,030 | 47.0 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,189 | 35.4 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,430 | 27.1 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,736 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,057 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,226 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,562 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,809 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,626 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,910 | 9.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,727 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joycelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joycelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joycelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joycelyn, and how old are they?
4,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 6,622 Americans ever recorded as Joycelyn. The median Joycelyn alive today is 53 years old; half are between 32 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 5,761 people named Joycelyn (5,752 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 380 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 745 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 318 |
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 Joycelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Joycelyn are Louisiana, Texas and California, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 1,144 | not ranked | 8.5× |
| Texas | 590 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 479 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 183 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 156 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 83 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Hawaii | 41 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Joycelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joycelyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1916 it was given 8.5 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 Joycelyn 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 131,138 babies since 1880, Joycelyn is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 902 babies (1.8%), 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 Joycelyn
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 Joycelyn and names like it
- Compare Joycelyn and JocelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJoycelyn peaked in 1955.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joycelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Joycelyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joycelyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.