Joslyn

Where Joslyn comes from

The dictionaries list Joslyn as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1930
    First appearance
    #4,550 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #636
    448 babies named Joslyn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,099.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.
Namesakes

No widely known Joslyn turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.