girls:
4.6k births since 1935
#2514 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1935
#4038 (48th percentile)
The name Jolynn is the #4,038 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,582 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 47.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,514 (56.0% percentile) for all time with 4,582 births since 1935.
Jolynn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (first recorded for girls in 1935). Birth data for Jolynn is available in 87 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023. 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, Jolynn reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 13.2% percentile (ranked #670) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 63 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jolynn ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jolynn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jolynn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.3% confident that Jolynn is pronounced as JOH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-LIHN, at 31.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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