Joslyn
#2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births · Last seen for boys in 1996 at #7,136
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 448 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,227since 1930
Joslyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Joslyn has never cracked the top 600 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,719 | 63 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,248 | 83 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,903 | 104 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,398 | 156 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,271 | 176 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,099 | 224 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,065 | 239 | — | |
| 2017 | #928 | 285 | — | |
| 2016 | #960 | 282 | — | |
| 2015 | #869 | 321 | — | |
| 2014 | #862 | 319 | — | |
| 2013 | #717 | 385 | — | |
| 2012 | #676 | 416 | — | |
| 2011 | #636 | 448 | — | |
| 2010 | #640 | 461 | — | |
| 2009 | #673 | 432 | — | |
| 2008 | #710 | 420 | — | |
| 2007 | #693 | 420 | — | |
| 2006 | #714 | 399 | — | |
| 2005 | #727 | 372 | — | |
| 2004 | #789 | 323 | — | |
| 2003 | #779 | 317 | — | |
| 2002 | #796 | 294 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,025 | 210 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,120 | 182 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,103 | 180 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,043 | 189 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,066 | 178 | — | |
| 1996 | #979 | 194 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #1,197 | 143 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,115 | 161 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,271 | 134 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,264 | 135 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,314 | 126 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,141 | 151 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,301 | 121 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,269 | 115 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,470 | 88 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,494 | 83 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,445 | 86 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,307 | 94 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #1,295 | 94 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,308 | 96 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,328 | 94 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,460 | 83 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,503 | 78 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,231 | 101 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #1,062 | 123 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #1,794 | 52 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,999 | 42 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 31 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,356 | 31 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,354 | 32 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,197 | 29 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,234 | 26 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,733 | 39 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,705 | 40 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,378 | 57 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,423 | 50 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,518 | 44 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,531 | 41 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,469 | 43 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,462 | 41 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,871 | 26 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
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| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Joslyn! It came in at #4,550, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Joslyn is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#431 · 1 in 2,711
- Kansas#478 · 1 in 2,591
- Kentucky#556 · 1 in 4,078
- Minnesota#588 · 1 in 4,211
- Illinois#685 · 1 in 4,694
Best ever in a state: #82 in Nebraska, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #431 | 19 | 1 in 2,711 |
| Kansas | #478 | 5 | 1 in 2,591 |
| Kentucky | #556 | 5 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Minnesota | #588 | 6 | 1 in 4,211 |
| Illinois | #685 | 15 | 1 in 4,694 |
| Missouri | #688 | 6 | 1 in 4,948 |
| Indiana | #740 | 6 | 1 in 5,513 |
| Washington | #857 | 5 | 1 in 5,846 |
| Georgia | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,363 |
| Texas | #1,050 | 17 | 1 in 8,438 |
| New York | #1,124 | 11 | 1 in 9,156 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,660 |
| California | #1,317 | 18 | 1 in 12,279 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Joslyn
- 471 spots since 2024 (#2,248 → #2,719)
- 1,448 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #2,719)
- 1,850 spots since 2015 (#869 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 229 spots in 2002 (#1,025 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2014 (#717 → #862)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 2011 at #636 (448 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2002–2017
- Highest: 1 in 3,856 girls born in 2010 were named Joslyn (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #636 in 2011, was only 1 in 3,926 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.1% of all girls named Joslyn (3,380) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 10 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,400 |
| 1940s | 31 | #3,493 (1943) | #3,899 |
| 1950s | 407 | #1,378 (1956) | #1,632 |
| 1960s | 231 | #2,172 (1963) | #2,698 |
| 1970s | 547 | #1,062 (1977) | #1,992 |
| 1980s | 954 | #1,269 (1988) | #1,368 |
| 1990s | 1,591 | #979 (1996) | #1,149 |
| 2000s | 3,369 | #673 (2009) | #803 |
| 2010s | 3,380 | #636 (2011) | #845 |
| 2020s | 707 | #1,271 (2020) | #1,869 |
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.
Joslyn in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 9,349 of them was named Joslyn, which outranked 93.7% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).