Jozalyn
Jozalyn was last recorded in 2017, when 8 babies were given it; 167 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jozalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jozalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,147, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2003, the peak
Jozalyn peaked in 2003, when 15 girls were given it, #7,378 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | #12,147 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,710 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,952 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,752 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,635 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,787 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,294 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,718 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,753 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,569 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | #8,563 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,129 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,378 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,124 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,471 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,178 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jozalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jozalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jozalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jozalyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 165 Americans named Jozalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 155 people named Jozalyn (154 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,631 babies since 1880, Jozalyn is the fourth most given (6.3% of them).
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 Jozalyn
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 Jozalyn and names like it
- Compare Jozalyn and JozlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJozalyn peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jozalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jozalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.