Josselyn
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 257 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,330since 1974
Josselyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Josselyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #3,014 | 55 |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 |
| 2020 | #2,823 | 58 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 |
| 2016 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2015 | #1,984 | 100 |
| 2014 | #1,684 | 125 |
| 2013 | #1,634 | 131 |
| 2012 | #1,503 | 148 |
| 2011 | #1,480 | 151 |
| 2010 | #1,388 | 166 |
| 2009 | #1,398 | 169 |
| 2008 | #1,317 | 188 |
| 2007 | #1,027 | 257 |
| 2006 | #1,351 | 172 |
| 2005 | #1,681 | 118 |
| 2004 | #1,734 | 111 |
| 2003 | #2,033 | 88 |
| 2002 | #2,288 | 71 |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #2,610 | 54 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 |
| 1996 | #2,125 | 64 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 1993 | #2,451 | 51 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Josselyn! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Josselyn
- 2,013 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #5,238)
- 2,415 spots since 2020 (#2,823 → #5,238)
- 3,254 spots since 2015 (#1,984 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2007 at #1,027 (257 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,481 girls born in 2007 were named Josselyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.1% of all girls named Josselyn (1,303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #8,775 (1974) | #8,775 |
| 1980s | 116 | #4,186 (1986) | #6,691 |
| 1990s | 464 | #2,125 (1996) | #2,740 |
| 2000s | 1,303 | #1,027 (2007) | #1,764 |
| 2010s | 1,154 | #1,388 (2010) | #1,881 |
| 2020s | 288 | #2,823 (2020) | #3,438 |
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.
Josselyn in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 293,507 of them was named Josselyn, which outranked 14.4% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,472 names at #8,775; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.