Joellyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joellyn has been given to 861 babies in the U.S. since 1934. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Joellyn, 2000
1 in 756,000
Joellyn over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Joellyn?
Joellyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 756,000
- 5 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 523,812 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joellyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joellyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joellyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joellyn was born before 1959 — so the typical Joellyn is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 26.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 655
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (229).
Is Joellyn rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (30)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Joellyn
Joellyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 54.7% against Joellyn's 0.42%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Joellyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Joellyn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 250,824 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Iowa1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5Wisconsin1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joellyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Joellyn around the world
Where Joellyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2018#5,666in 2018
- South Australia1965–1965#674in 1965
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Joellyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Joellyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joellyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.