Joycelyn
Joycelyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 708th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1955156 births
- Best rank
- #708in 1935
- Since 1916
- 6,605people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,605 girls have been named Joycelyn in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 156 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Joycelyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | |
| 1920s | 326 | |
| 1930s | 749 | |
| 1940s | 736 | |
| 1950s | 1,128 | |
| 1960s | 896 | |
| 1970s | 575 | |
| 1980s | 614 | |
| 1990s | 664 | |
| 2000s | 491 | |
| 2010s | 299 | |
| 2020s | 101 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Joycelyn was the 765th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Joycelyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laraepeak 1975
- Yvonnapeak 1954
- Lavonnapeak 1963
- Joypeak 1957
- Alaynepeak 1965
- Janettpeak 1991
- Jacquelinepeak 1964
- Jacquelynpeak 1951
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.