Jolynn
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1962 · 107 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,620since 1935
Jolynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Jolynn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 |
| 2012 | #3,267 | 50 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,361 | 49 |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 |
| 2003 | #2,956 | 51 |
| 2002 | #3,334 | 41 |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #2,676 | 45 |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 |
| 1990 | #2,492 | 48 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 |
| 1988 | #2,295 | 48 |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 |
| 1986 | #1,890 | 59 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,657 | 66 |
| 1983 | #1,665 | 66 |
| 1982 | #1,608 | 72 |
| 1981 | #1,455 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,448 | 84 |
| 1979 | #1,605 | 70 |
| 1978 | #1,598 | 67 |
| 1977 | #1,345 | 84 |
| 1976 | #1,307 | 83 |
| 1975 | #1,175 | 98 |
| 1974 | #1,239 | 88 |
| 1973 | #1,548 | 60 |
| 1972 | #1,325 | 76 |
| 1971 | #1,221 | 92 |
| 1970 | #1,144 | 101 |
| 1969 | #1,087 | 104 |
| 1968 | #1,083 | 96 |
| 1967 | #1,239 | 74 |
| 1966 | #1,189 | 81 |
| 1965 | #1,089 | 92 |
| 1964 | #1,119 | 96 |
| 1963 | #1,126 | 94 |
| 1962 | #1,043 | 107 |
| 1961 | #1,122 | 96 |
| 1960 | #1,081 | 99 |
| 1959 | #1,118 | 91 |
| 1958 | #1,129 | 88 |
| 1957 | #1,202 | 77 |
| 1956 | #1,413 | 55 |
| 1955 | #1,445 | 49 |
| 1954 | #1,285 | 59 |
| 1953 | #1,503 | 42 |
| 1952 | #1,285 | 55 |
| 1951 | #1,481 | 40 |
| 1950 | #1,794 | 28 |
| 1949 | #1,666 | 32 |
| 1948 | #1,820 | 27 |
| 1947 | #1,413 | 43 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
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| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
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| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jolynn! It came in at #3,742, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jolynn is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#767 · 1 in 9,201
- Texas#1,524 · 1 in 19,340
- California#1,585 · 1 in 20,552
Best ever in a state: #208 in Utah, 1955.
Show every state
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| Pennsylvania | #767 | 7 | 1 in 9,201 |
| Texas | #1,524 | 5 | 1 in 19,340 |
| California | #1,585 | 7 | 1 in 20,552 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jolynn
- 379 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #6,546)
- 1,998 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #6,546)
- 3,068 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #6,546)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 1962 at #1,043 (107 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,876 girls born in 1975 were named Jolynn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,043 in 1962, was only 1 in 18,379 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.3% of all girls named Jolynn (939) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 23 | #2,857 (1936) | #3,260 |
| 1940s | 190 | #1,413 (1947) | #2,368 |
| 1950s | 584 | #1,118 (1959) | #1,366 |
| 1960s | 939 | #1,043 (1962) | #1,118 |
| 1970s | 819 | #1,144 (1970) | #1,351 |
| 1980s | 637 | #1,448 (1980) | #1,843 |
| 1990s | 386 | #2,388 (1991) | #3,120 |
| 2000s | 459 | #2,889 (2004) | #3,321 |
| 2010s | 437 | #3,050 (2018) | #3,612 |
| 2020s | 146 | #4,507 (2021) | #5,331 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jolynn in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
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1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 17,652 of them was named Jolynn, which outranked 88.0% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,297Malisa84
- #1,297Nickie84
- #1,297Shay84
- #1,307Jolynn83
- #1,307Althea83
- #1,307Annalisa83
- #1,307Carmelita83
- #1,316Carmella82
- #1,316Detra82
- #1,316Dolly82
Tied with 8 names at #1,307; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.