Joselyn
#1,500 for girls in 2025, 142 births · Last seen for boys in 1993 at #8,700
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 1,577 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,214since 1933
Joselyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Joselyn has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,500 | 142 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,207 | 196 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,325 | 177 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,122 | 220 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,116 | 217 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,020 | 252 | — | |
| 2018 | #951 | 279 | — | |
| 2017 | #819 | 333 | — | |
| 2016 | #734 | 388 | — | |
| 2015 | #688 | 416 | — | |
| 2014 | #617 | 464 | — | |
| 2013 | #474 | 648 | — | |
| 2012 | #459 | 678 | — | |
| 2011 | #372 | 864 | — | |
| 2010 | #380 | 835 | — | |
| 2009 | #336 | 981 | — | |
| 2008 | #308 | 1,086 | — | |
| 2007 | #221 | 1,577 | — | |
| 2006 | #314 | 1,054 | — | |
| 2005 | #409 | 762 | — | |
| 2004 | #412 | 741 | — | |
| 2003 | #474 | 625 | — | |
| 2002 | #544 | 506 | — | |
| 2001 | #611 | 412 | — | |
| 2000 | #650 | 381 | — | |
| 1999 | #773 | 285 | — | |
| 1998 | #774 | 278 | — | |
| 1997 | #777 | 268 | — | |
| 1996 | #684 | 319 | — | |
| 1995 | #819 | 240 | — | |
| 1994 | #730 | 285 | — | |
| 1993 | #812 | 246 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #891 | 221 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,224 | 140 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,168 | 147 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,506 | 95 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,477 | 92 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,570 | 80 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,588 | 75 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,760 | 64 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,565 | 72 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,310 | 41 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,584 | 74 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,867 | 58 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,391 | 40 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,248 | 43 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,474 | 35 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,026 | 47 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,577 | 28 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,581 | 20 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,071 | 25 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 | — | |
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| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Joselyn! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1935, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Joselyn
- 293 spots since 2024 (#1,207 → #1,500)
- 384 spots since 2020 (#1,116 → #1,500)
- 812 spots since 2015 (#688 → #1,500)
- Biggest jump: 333 spots in 1992 (#1,224 → #891)
- Biggest drop: 143 spots in 2014 (#474 → #617)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 2007 at #221 (1,577 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1992–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,219 girls born in 2007 were named Joselyn (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,319 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.6% of all girls named Joselyn (8,125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 12 | #3,376 (1936) | #3,797 |
| 1940s | 39 | #3,593 (1948) | #4,272 |
| 1950s | 186 | #2,071 (1953) | #2,644 |
| 1960s | 143 | #2,411 (1965) | #3,605 |
| 1970s | 310 | #2,026 (1977) | #2,607 |
| 1980s | 691 | #1,477 (1988) | #1,762 |
| 1990s | 2,429 | #684 (1996) | #865 |
| 2000s | 8,125 | #221 (2007) | #428 |
| 2010s | 5,157 | #372 (2011) | #651 |
| 2020s | 1,122 | #1,116 (2020) | #1,267 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Joselyn in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,266 of them was named Joselyn, which outranked 93.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,202Mollie197
- #1,202Naiari197
- #1,202Zahara197
- #1,207Joselyn196
- #1,207Jaylene196
- #1,207Jhene196
- #1,207Kassandra196
- #1,214Lianna195
- #1,214Margaux195
- #1,214Odette195
Tied with 6 names at #1,207; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.