Meaning not yet researched.
Joycelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #708 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #708 in 1935; #6,971 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joycelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,971 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #708.
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Joycelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #708 in 1935 · most girls in one year: 156 (1955).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Joycelyn, making it the 6,971st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,201 places from #8,172 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 13 girls named Joycelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #708, reached in 1935. The most girls given the name in a single year was 156, in 1955. For comparison, it was #7,431 in 2015 and #951 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joycelyn in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 7 babies. In all, 6,622 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,128 babies named Joycelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US girls were named Joycelyn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 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), Jocelynn (6,725 babies since 1880) and Jocelyne (4,228 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joyceline and Joycelene 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: Joyceline (92), Joycelene (25).
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 Joycelyn 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 | 16 | #6,971 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,172 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,557 | — | — |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,935 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,105 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,208 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,431 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,093 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,584 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,128 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,413 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,550 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,405 | — | — |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1969 | 93 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1968 | 96 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1967 | 76 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1966 | 91 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1965 | 100 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1964 | 89 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1963 | 73 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1961 | 106 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1960 | 80 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1957 | 125 | #915 | — | — |
| 1956 | 149 | #814 | — | — |
| 1955 | 156 | #765 | — | — |
| 1954 | 108 | #930 | — | — |
| 1953 | 108 | #905 | — | — |
| 1952 | 105 | #902 | — | — |
| 1951 | 99 | #922 | — | — |
| 1950 | 89 | #951 | — | — |
| 1949 | 83 | #988 | — | — |
| 1948 | 79 | #981 | — | — |
| 1947 | 81 | #981 | — | — |
| 1946 | 77 | #949 | — | — |
| 1945 | 69 | #909 | — | — |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1943 | 66 | #981 | — | — |
| 1942 | 78 | #878 | — | — |
| 1941 | 86 | #781 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #870 | — | — |
| 1939 | 67 | #859 | — | — |
| 1938 | 75 | #817 | — | — |
| 1937 | 85 | #736 | — | — |
| 1936 | 78 | #765 | — | — |
| 1935 | 91 | #708 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #799 | — | — |
| 1933 | 76 | #758 | — | — |
| 1932 | 59 | #919 | — | — |
| 1931 | 79 | #754 | — | — |
| 1930 | 68 | #872 | — | — |
| 1929 | 56 | #963 | — | — |
| 1928 | 52 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1927 | 56 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,628 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,729 | — | — |
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).