Meaning not yet researched.
Joselyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 142 in 2025. Its best rank was #221 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #221 in 2007; #1,504 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joselyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,504 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #221.
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Joselyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 142 girls in 2025. Peak: #221 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 1,577 (2007).
In 2025, 142 US girls were named Joselyn, making it the 1,504th most common girls’ name of the year, down 295 places from #1,209 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 196 girls named Joselyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #221, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,577. For comparison, it was #688 in 2015 and #3,809 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joselyn in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 18,219 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,125 babies named Joselyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,374 US girls were named Joselyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 388. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,319 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joselyn ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #850 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jocelyn (113,412 babies since 1880), Jocelynn (6,725 babies since 1880), Joycelyn (6,622 babies since 1880) and Jocelyne (4,228 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Josalynn, Jossalyn and Josilynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Josalynn (747), Jossalyn (352), Josilynn (254), Josselyne (165), Josalin (138), Joselynne (132), Jossilyn (97), Josilin (58), Josselynn (56), Joselene (29), Josielynn (28), Josalyne (6), and more.
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 Joselyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 5 | #850 | #795 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,085 | #474 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,111 | #648 |
| California | 21 | #1,202 | #552 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,432 | #458 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,566 | #1,010 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,645 | #1,236 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 142 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2020 | 217 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 2019 | 252 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 2018 | 279 | #952 | — | — |
| 2017 | 333 | #820 | — | — |
| 2016 | 388 | #735 | — | — |
| 2015 | 416 | #688 | — | — |
| 2014 | 464 | #618 | — | — |
| 2013 | 648 | #474 | — | — |
| 2012 | 678 | #461 | — | — |
| 2011 | 864 | #372 | — | — |
| 2010 | 835 | #382 | — | — |
| 2009 | 981 | #336 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,086 | #308 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,577 | #221 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,054 | #314 | — | — |
| 2005 | 762 | #409 | — | — |
| 2004 | 741 | #412 | — | — |
| 2003 | 625 | #475 | — | — |
| 2002 | 506 | #545 | — | — |
| 2001 | 412 | #611 | — | — |
| 2000 | 381 | #650 | — | — |
| 1999 | 285 | #774 | — | — |
| 1998 | 278 | #774 | — | — |
| 1997 | 268 | #779 | — | — |
| 1996 | 319 | #684 | — | — |
| 1995 | 240 | #820 | — | — |
| 1994 | 285 | #733 | — | — |
| 1993 | 246 | #813 | 5 | #9,418 |
| 1992 | 221 | #891 | — | — |
| 1991 | 140 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1990 | 147 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,926 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,210 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,119 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,722 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,302 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,534 | — | — |
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).