Meaning not yet researched.
Jolynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,049 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,049 in 1962; #6,668 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jolynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,668 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #1,049.
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Jolynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,049 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 107 (1962).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Jolynn, making it the 6,668th most common girls’ name of the year, down 398 places from #6,270 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 19 girls named Jolynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,049, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #3,505 in 2015 and #1,810 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jolynn in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 6 babies. In all, 4,620 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 939 babies named Jolynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 312 US girls were named Jolynn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jolene (36,236 babies since 1880) and Joleen (6,670 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joylynn, Joylyn and Joeylynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joylynn (561), Joylyn (408), Joeylynn (6), Joylynne (5), Joilyn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jolynn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,668 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,270 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,604 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 2015 | 45 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,188 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,769 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,923 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,651 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1980 | 84 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1977 | 84 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1975 | 98 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1974 | 88 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1970 | 101 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1969 | 104 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1964 | 96 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1963 | 94 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1961 | 96 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1960 | 99 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1959 | 91 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1958 | 88 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1957 | 77 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1955 | 49 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,979 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).