Meaning not yet researched.
Josselyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,028 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,028 in 2007; #5,313 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josselyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,313 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #1,028.
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Josselyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,028 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 257 (2007).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Josselyn, making it the 5,313th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,058 places from #3,255 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 49 girls named Josselyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,028, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 257. For comparison, it was #1,990 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josselyn in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 3,330 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,303 babies named Josselyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 621 US girls were named Josselyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 103. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jocelyn (113,412 babies since 1880), Joselyn (18,219 babies since 1880), Joycelyn (6,622 babies since 1880) and Joselin (4,204 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jossalynn and Jossilynn 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: Jossalynn (57), Jossilynn (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 Josselyn 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 | 24 | #5,313 | — | — |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2015 | 100 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2008 | 188 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2007 | 257 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2006 | 172 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1996 | 64 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,735 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,559 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,850 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,677 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,963 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,622 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,611 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,589 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,340 | — | — |
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).