Meaning not yet researched.
Josslyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,318 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,318 in 2011; #7,289 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josslyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,289 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,318.
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Josslyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,318 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 179 (2011).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Josslyn, making it the 7,289th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,769 places from #4,520 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 31 girls named Josslyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,318, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 179. For comparison, it was #1,751 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josslyn in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 2,171 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,217 babies named Josslyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 544 US girls were named Josslyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joslyn (11,255 babies since 1880), Joslynn (3,320 babies since 1880), Joslin (1,416 babies since 1880) and Jozlyn (1,174 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Josslyn 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 | 15 | #7,289 | — | — |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,382 | — | — |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,564 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,782 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,778 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,899 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,378 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,141 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,986 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,995 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,824 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,133 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,708 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,746 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,114 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,050 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,983 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,612 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,071 | — | — |
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).