Yoselyn
Yoselyn was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,837 among girls’ names; 1,797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Yoselyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoselyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yoselyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yoselyn is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern variant of Jocelyn, by folk etymology interpreted as a feminine form of Jose/José.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yoselyn?
#8,837 among girls’ names, 2025
Yoselyn fell from #3,762 in 2015 to #8,837 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 7.5 per million.
186 babies in 2007, the peak
Yoselyn peaked in 2007, when 186 girls were given it, #1,316 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,837 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,949 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,156 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,300 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,405 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,542 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,438 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,765 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,766 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,079 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,762 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,419 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,971 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,596 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,071 | 53.4 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,885 | 60.8 |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,726 | 69.7 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,901 | 59.2 |
| 2007 | 186 | #1,316 | 96.7 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,708 | 64.7 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,251 | 43.8 |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,041 | 49.0 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,364 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,236 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,085 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,973 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,568 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,631 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,223 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,561 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,947 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,241 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,198 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,641 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,433 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,396 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,745 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,661 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoselyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoselyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoselyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoselyn, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,797 Americans ever recorded as Yoselyn. The median Yoselyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,561 people named Yoselyn (1,551 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 124 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 413 |
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 Yoselyn born?
The states with the most babies named Yoselyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 452 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 216 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 42 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 39 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Yoselyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yoselyn is most over-represented in California: since 1985 it was given 1.9 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 Yoselyn 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 9,537 babies since 1880, Yoselyn is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 132 babies (9.1%), the third 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 Yoselyn
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 Yoselyn and names like it
- Compare Yoselyn and YoselinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYoselyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoselyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Yoselyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yoselyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.