Jozelyn — girls' name
363 babies named Jozelyn in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Jozelyn was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Jozelyn in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jozelyn
The Social Security Administration has registered 363 babies named Jozelyn between 1994 and 2020, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jozelyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jozelyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 171 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jozelyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jozelyn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jozelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 363 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jozelyn at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jozelyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1994
- Peak year (2008)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
363 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 28 births in a single year.
Jozelyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 171 births that decade — 47% of Jozelyn's all-time total
Jozelyn decade highlights
- Peak decade 171 births
- Runner-up 142 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jozelyn's strongest decade
171 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Jozelyn by state
Where Jozelyn concentrates geographically — total births since 1994
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 14 | 3.9% |
14 of 363 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1994–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.