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Josslyn

#7,287 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jocelyn

Josslyn has been given to 2,171 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #7,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Josslyn, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josslyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jocelyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josslyn means

Josslyn is a variant of Jocelyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jocelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,171 girls were recorded with the name Josslyn between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 179 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,318 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,361 in 2020 to #7,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,751 in 2015 to #7,287 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 Josslyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,287
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josslyn 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josslyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josslyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josslyn was born before 2011 — so the typical Josslyn is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (1,217).

Is Josslyn 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
−2,769
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,926
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,536
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.4%
Peak was 2011 (179)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,318
2011

Spellings of Josslyn

Josslyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 45.6% against Josslyn's 0.88%.

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 Josslyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Josslyn was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 53,208 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 25,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 33,333
  4. 4Missouri1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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.

Josslyn around the world

Where Josslyn 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 & Wales
    2005–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2007–2016
    #1,993
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1959–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Josslyn

People whose public names include Josslyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Josslyn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Josslyn. Linked forms have their own page here.

JossJoslyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Josslyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,926
Best rank ever
#1,318
2011
Peak year
2011
179 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,171
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Josslyn

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

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Names with a curve like Josslyn

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

LillyannRaniyahIzzabellaBrylieCambreeKaidencePeightonYaretzyAubrianaCaelynLillyanaHaidyn

Sibling names for Josslyn

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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