Joycelyn
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1935 · 91 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,622since 1916
Joycelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Joycelyn has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 |
| 2017 | #4,066 | 36 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 |
| 2001 | #3,316 | 41 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 |
| 1999 | #2,703 | 51 |
| 1998 | #2,614 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 |
| 1995 | #1,880 | 74 |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 |
| 1993 | #1,801 | 81 |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 |
| 1991 | #1,740 | 83 |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 |
| 1989 | #1,701 | 80 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 |
| 1986 | #1,816 | 62 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,459 | 79 |
| 1983 | #1,608 | 69 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 |
| 1981 | #1,985 | 53 |
| 1980 | #1,863 | 58 |
| 1979 | #1,977 | 52 |
| 1978 | #1,841 | 54 |
| 1977 | #1,736 | 59 |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 |
| 1975 | #1,655 | 58 |
| 1974 | #1,760 | 51 |
| 1973 | #2,064 | 39 |
| 1972 | #1,594 | 57 |
| 1971 | #1,427 | 73 |
| 1970 | #1,407 | 74 |
| 1969 | #1,153 | 93 |
| 1968 | #1,083 | 96 |
| 1967 | #1,219 | 76 |
| 1966 | #1,102 | 91 |
| 1965 | #1,048 | 100 |
| 1964 | #1,167 | 89 |
| 1963 | #1,290 | 73 |
| 1962 | #1,138 | 92 |
| 1961 | #1,063 | 106 |
| 1960 | #1,220 | 80 |
| 1959 | #1,079 | 97 |
| 1958 | #1,095 | 92 |
| 1957 | #910 | 125 |
| 1956 | #813 | 149 |
| 1955 | #763 | 156 |
| 1954 | #926 | 108 |
| 1953 | #904 | 108 |
| 1952 | #902 | 105 |
| 1951 | #921 | 99 |
| 1950 | #948 | 89 |
| 1949 | #982 | 83 |
| 1948 | #977 | 79 |
| 1947 | #979 | 81 |
| 1946 | #946 | 77 |
| 1945 | #904 | 69 |
| 1944 | #1,104 | 50 |
| 1943 | #975 | 66 |
| 1942 | #873 | 78 |
| 1941 | #779 | 86 |
| 1940 | #868 | 67 |
| 1939 | #857 | 67 |
| 1938 | #811 | 75 |
| 1937 | #734 | 85 |
| 1936 | #764 | 78 |
| 1935 | #705 | 91 |
| 1934 | #794 | 71 |
| 1933 | #756 | 76 |
| 1932 | #913 | 59 |
| 1931 | #750 | 79 |
| 1930 | #867 | 68 |
| 1929 | #959 | 56 |
| 1928 | #1,041 | 52 |
| 1927 | #1,023 | 56 |
| 1926 | #1,181 | 42 |
| 1925 | #1,409 | 33 |
| 1924 | #1,723 | 25 |
| 1923 | #2,021 | 19 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Joycelyn! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Joycelyn is popular in 1946
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#221 · 1 in 1,122
- Texas#998 · 1 in 16,613
Best ever in a state: #144 in Louisiana, 1935.
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| Louisiana | #221 | 27 | 1 in 1,122 |
| Texas | #998 | 5 | 1 in 16,613 |
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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 Joycelyn
- 1,129 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #6,838)
- 1,351 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #6,838)
- 428 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #6,838)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 1945 (#1,104 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 185 spots in 1958 (#910 → #1,095)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1935 at #705 (91 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 38 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1929–1943
- Highest: 1 in 11,523 girls born in 1935 were named Joycelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.0% of all girls named Joycelyn (1,128) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #2,822 (1918) | #3,275 |
| 1920s | 326 | #959 (1929) | #1,678 |
| 1930s | 749 | #705 (1935) | #795 |
| 1940s | 736 | #779 (1941) | #939 |
| 1950s | 1,128 | #763 (1955) | #926 |
| 1960s | 896 | #1,048 (1965) | #1,148 |
| 1970s | 575 | #1,407 (1970) | #1,714 |
| 1980s | 614 | #1,459 (1984) | #1,875 |
| 1990s | 664 | #1,740 (1991) | #2,132 |
| 2000s | 491 | #2,438 (2006) | #3,237 |
| 2010s | 299 | #3,788 (2019) | #4,820 |
| 2020s | 118 | #4,907 (2022) | #6,197 |
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.
Joycelyn in 1946
Top girls' names in 1946
More about 1946
girls
1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 20,407 of them was named Joycelyn, which outranked 83.4% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #942Rosario78
- #942Starr78
- #942Velda78
- #946Joycelyn77
- #946Coleen77
- #946Gerri77
- #946Herlinda77
- #953Abigail76
- #953Darline76
- #953Ernestina76
Tied with 6 names at #946; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.