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Jolynn

#6,667 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jolynn has been given to 4,620 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #6,667 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 107 recorded.

Babies named Jolynn, 2025

1 in 195,000

Jolynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jolynn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jolynn means

Jolynn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jolynn

Wikidata records Jolynn as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110816927, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,620 girls were recorded with the name Jolynn between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 107 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,049 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,602 in 2020 to #6,667 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,505 in 2015 to #6,667 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jolynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,667
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jolynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jolynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jolynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jolynn was born before 1976 — so the typical Jolynn is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,407
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Choose a decade

1960s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (939).

Is Jolynn 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
−400
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,065
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,162
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.9%
Peak was 1962 (107)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,049
1962

Spellings of Jolynn

Jolynn is not the most common spelling — Lynn is, with 36.7% against Jolynn's 0.93%.

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 Jolynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jolynn was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 68,234 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 12,500
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 20,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 33,333
  4. 4Iowa1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 50,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 50,000

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. Jolynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jolynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,667
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,065
Best rank ever
#1,049
1962
Peak year
1962
107 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,620
Count in 2025
17

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jolynn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jolynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jolynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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