Joycelynn
Joycelynn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,989 among girls’ names; 588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joycelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joycelynn?
#15,989 among girls’ names, 2025
Joycelynn fell from #10,462 in 2015 to #15,989 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.1 per million.
20 babies in 2007, the peak
Joycelynn peaked in 2007, when 20 girls were given it, #6,675 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,989 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,867 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,927 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,676 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,806 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,214 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,603 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,439 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,032 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,610 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,462 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,698 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,555 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,001 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,395 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,949 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,293 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,172 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,675 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,978 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,661 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,809 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,588 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,498 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,835 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,799 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,246 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,374 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,524 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,360 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,835 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,503 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,058 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,174 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,062 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,120 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,743 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,011 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,949 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,174 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,067 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,415 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,722 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,616 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,887 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,626 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,830 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,818 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,785 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,559 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,991 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,496 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,154 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,495 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,021 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,174 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,543 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,792 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,276 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,498 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,628 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,446 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,301 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,999 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,358 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,565 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joycelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joycelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joycelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joycelynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Joycelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 14 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 509 people named Joycelynn (504 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 510 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Joycelynn?
Joycelynn is a less common spelling of Joycelyn: SSA has recorded 588 Joycelynn and 6,622 Joycelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 127,825 babies since 1880, Joycelynn is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 894 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Joycelynn
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 Joycelynn and names like it
- Compare Joycelynn and JoycelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoycelynn peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joycelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Joycelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joycelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
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