girls:
11.1k births since 1930
#1492 (74th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1976
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1930
#2495 (68th percentile)
The name Joslyn is the #2,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,103 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 67.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,492 (73.9% percentile) for all time with 11,075 births since 1930. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1976.
Joslyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (1930 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Joslyn is available in 80 out of the 94 years between 1930 and 2023 (80 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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.
The name Joslyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Joslyn reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 43.7% percentile (ranked #530) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 235 births per million (ranked 43.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joslyn ranks #848 for girls (10.5% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 25.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Joslyn reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joslyn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Joslyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Joslyn is pronounced as JAHZ-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAH-slihn, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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