Meaning not yet researched.
Joslyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #637 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #637 in 2011; #2,732 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joslyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,732 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #637.
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Joslyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #637 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 461 (2010).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Joslyn, making it the 2,732nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 476 places from #2,256 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 83 girls named Joslyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #637, reached in 2011. The most girls given the name in a single year was 461, in 2010. For comparison, it was #870 in 2015 and #1,885 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joslyn in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 11,255 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,380 babies named Joslyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,737 US girls were named Joslyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 285. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joslyn ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,217 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Josslyn (2,171 babies since 1880), Joslin (1,416 babies since 1880), Joslynn (3,320 babies since 1880) and Jozlyn (1,174 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jozlynn, Josslynn and Joslynne 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: Jozlynn (678), Josslynn (452), Joslynne (145), Josslin (93), Jozlin (72), Joslyne (71), Josline (28), Joslen (16), Joslene (6), Jozlyne (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 Joslyn 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,217 | #788 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,345 | #762 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,732 | — | — |
| 2024 | 83 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2020 | 176 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2019 | 224 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2017 | 285 | #929 | — | — |
| 2016 | 282 | #961 | — | — |
| 2015 | 321 | #870 | — | — |
| 2014 | 319 | #863 | — | — |
| 2013 | 385 | #717 | — | — |
| 2012 | 416 | #678 | — | — |
| 2011 | 448 | #637 | — | — |
| 2010 | 461 | #641 | — | — |
| 2009 | 432 | #674 | — | — |
| 2008 | 420 | #711 | — | — |
| 2007 | 420 | #694 | — | — |
| 2006 | 399 | #714 | — | — |
| 2005 | 372 | #729 | — | — |
| 2004 | 323 | #789 | — | — |
| 2003 | 317 | #780 | — | — |
| 2002 | 294 | #798 | — | — |
| 2001 | 210 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 2000 | 182 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1998 | 189 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1996 | 194 | #981 | 7 | #7,530 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1990 | 151 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,308 | 5 | #6,813 |
| 1983 | 94 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1978 | 101 | #1,233 | 5 | #6,277 |
| 1977 | 123 | #1,063 | 6 | #5,470 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,803 | 5 | #6,022 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,890 | — | — |
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).