Josalyn
#12,486 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Josalyn has been given to 2,120 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #12,486 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 113 recorded.
Babies named Josalyn, 2025
1 in 474,000
Josalyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Josalyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,486
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Josalyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Josalyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Josalyn was born before 2005 — so the typical Josalyn is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,120
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (820).
Is Josalyn 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
- −3,814
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,625
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −9,212
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.14×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.2%
- Peak was 2009 (113)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Josalyn
Josalyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 42.7% against Josalyn's 0.80%.
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 Josalyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Josalyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 205,171 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4Ohio1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Alabama1 in —
- 7Arizona1 in —
- 8Georgia1 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. Josalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Josalyn around the world
Where Josalyn 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.
- South Australia2006–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Josalyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Josalyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Josalyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Josalyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Josalyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.