Josslyn
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 179 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,171since 1953
Josslyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Josslyn 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 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #4,473 | 31 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2018 | #2,508 | 70 |
| 2017 | #1,876 | 108 |
| 2016 | #1,684 | 127 |
| 2015 | #1,743 | 120 |
| 2014 | #1,617 | 133 |
| 2013 | #1,599 | 134 |
| 2012 | #1,469 | 154 |
| 2011 | #1,311 | 179 |
| 2010 | #1,500 | 149 |
| 2009 | #1,778 | 122 |
| 2008 | #1,713 | 130 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 |
| 2006 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2005 | #2,827 | 58 |
| 2004 | #3,898 | 36 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
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| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
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| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Josslyn! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1980, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Josslyn is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#708 · 1 in 4,046
- Maryland#898 · 1 in 5,055
- Washington#943 · 1 in 5,358
- Indiana#1,030 · 1 in 6,501
- Texas#1,530 · 1 in 11,181
Best ever in a state: #411 in Nebraska, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,046 |
| Maryland | #898 | 5 | 1 in 5,055 |
| Washington | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,358 |
| Indiana | #1,030 | 5 | 1 in 6,501 |
| Texas | #1,530 | 15 | 1 in 11,181 |
| New York | #1,802 | 7 | 1 in 13,647 |
| California | #1,833 | 14 | 1 in 16,382 |
| Florida | #2,056 | 5 | 1 in 17,216 |
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See more about Josslyn
- 2,660 spots since 2024 (#4,473 → #7,133)
- 3,795 spots since 2020 (#3,338 → #7,133)
- 5,390 spots since 2015 (#1,743 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2011 at #1,311 (179 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,827 girls born in 2011 were named Josslyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 56.1% of all girls named Josslyn (1,217) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 5 | #5,673 (1953) | #5,673 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 32 | #7,749 (1986) | #9,370 |
| 1990s | 94 | #4,445 (1999) | #8,885 |
| 2000s | 627 | #1,655 (2007) | #4,103 |
| 2010s | 1,217 | #1,311 (2011) | #1,886 |
| 2020s | 196 | #3,338 (2020) | #4,585 |
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.
Josslyn in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 14,546 of them was named Josslyn, which outranked 91.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).