Joylyn
Joylyn was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,371 among girls’ names; 408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joylyn?
#11,371 among girls’ names, 2025
Joylyn rose from #13,668 in 2015 to #11,371 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
13 babies in 1977, the peak
Joylyn peaked in 1977, when 13 girls were given it, #5,047 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,371 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,384 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,275 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,228 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,604 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,788 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,145 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,554 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,668 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,412 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,837 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,300 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,632 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,533 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,433 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,048 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,323 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,116 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,829 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,690 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,504 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,135 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,706 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,954 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,638 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,851 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,551 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,416 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,769 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,700 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,354 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,588 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,047 | 8.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,497 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,196 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,674 | 8.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,206 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,211 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,612 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,114 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,333 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,222 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,122 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,533 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,370 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,947 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,448 | 4.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,523 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,493 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,419 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,335 | 3.2 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,956 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,637 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,027 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,926 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joylyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 371 Americans named Joylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 19 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 585 people named Joylyn (585 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,894 babies since 1880, Joylyn is the seventh most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 39 babies (21%), the second 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 Joylyn
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 Joylyn and names like it
- Compare Joylyn and JolynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJoylyn peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Joylyn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Joylyn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.