girls:
734 births since 1931
#4982 (13th percentile)
overall:
734 births since 1931
#7005 (9th percentile)
The name Joelyn is the #7,005 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 734 recorded births since 1931. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,982 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 734 births since 1931.
Joelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1931 (first recorded for girls in 1931). Birth data for Joelyn is available in 77 out of the 91 years between 1931 and 2021. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Joelyn reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #674) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joelyn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Joelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.3% confident that Joelyn is pronounced as joh-EH-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-lihn, at 24.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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