# Joslyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/joslyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,255 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 28 / 11,227 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 38, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 448 | 637 |
| 2012 | 416 | 678 |
| 2013 | 385 | 717 |
| 2014 | 319 | 863 |
| 2015 | 321 | 870 |
| 2016 | 282 | 961 |
| 2017 | 285 | 929 |
| 2018 | 239 | 1,069 |
| 2019 | 224 | 1,099 |
| 2020 | 176 | 1,272 |
| 2021 | 156 | 1,400 |
| 2022 | 125 | 1,679 |
| 2023 | 104 | 1,914 |
| 2024 | 83 | 2,256 |
| 2025 | 63 | 2,732 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 6,022 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,470 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,277 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,813 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,530 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.