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How popular is “Jocelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jocelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jocelyn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jocelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jocelyn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jocelyn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jocelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jocelyn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1900 6 0.000013326 6 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 100%
1917 27 0.000013455 27 100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 100%
1920 25 0.000011049 25 100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 100%
1922 24 0.000010484 24 100%
1923 46 0.000019978 46 100%
1924 44 0.000018475 44 100%
1925 48 0.000020572 48 100%
1926 45 0.0000196 45 100%
1927 63 0.000027163 63 100%
1928 64 0.000028307 64 100%
1929 80 0.000036494 80 100%
1930 67 0.000030136 67 100%
1931 85 0.000040392 85 100%
1932 62 0.000029366 62 100%
1933 63 0.000031509 63 100%
1934 75 0.000036113 75 100%
1935 51 0.000024403 51 100%
1936 72 0.000034656 72 100%
1937 50 0.000023467 50 100%
1938 44 0.000019886 44 100%
1939 73 0.00003313 73 100%
1940 56 0.000024319 56 100%
1941 60 0.000024626 60 100%
1942 62 0.000022696 62 100%
1943 73 0.000025863 73 100%
1944 47 0.000017472 47 100%
1945 72 0.00002714 72 100%
1946 70 0.000021907 70 100%
1947 72 0.000019987 72 100%
1948 79 0.000022882 79 100%
1949 97 0.000027835 97 100%
1950 136 0.00003882 136 100%
1951 276 0.000074924 276 100%
1952 255 0.000067141 255 100%
1953 308 0.000079924 308 100%
1954 304 0.000076368 304 100%
1955 383 0.00009539 383 100%
1956 404 0.000097986 404 100%
1957 353 0.000084005 353 100%
1958 306 0.000074022 306 100%
1959 241 0.000057961 241 100%
1960 228 0.000054889 228 100%
1961 223 0.000053835 223 100%
1962 222 0.000055014 222 100%
1963 267 0.000067455 267 100%
1964 262 0.000067394 262 100%
1965 292 0.000080542 292 100%
1966 297 0.000085452 297 100%
1967 260 0.000076586 260 100%
1968 324 0.000095903 324 100%
1969 390 0.00011222 390 100%
1970 413 0.000114515 413 100%
1971 396 0.000115373 396 100%
1972 351 0.000111677 351 100%
1973 356 0.000118002 356 100%
1974 389 0.000127961 389 100%
1975 405 0.000134133 400 5 98%
1976 424 0.000139736 424 100%
1977 945 0.000297498 938 7 99%
1978 834 0.000262771 827 7 98%
1979 734 0.000220619 721 13 96%
1980 766 0.000222383 761 5 99%
1981 816 0.000235881 809 7 98%
1982 752 0.000214369 741 11 97%
1983 729 0.000210491 723 6 98%
1984 875 0.000250806 869 6 99%
1985 879 0.00024628 869 10 98%
1986 858 0.000241209 851 7 98%
1987 986 0.000273462 979 7 99%
1988 1119 0.000302838 1104 15 97%
1989 1098 0.000285607 1081 17 97%
1990 1325 0.000335233 1317 8 99%
1991 1365 0.000350425 1355 10 99%
1992 1859 0.000483954 1843 16 98%
1993 1948 0.000516673 1926 22 98%
1994 2069 0.000556534 2058 11 99%
1995 2206 0.000602378 2193 13 99%
1996 2518 0.000690394 2509 9 99%
1997 2631 0.000725643 2621 10 99%
1998 2595 0.000705507 2583 12 99%
1999 2489 0.00067382 2477 12 99%
2000 2755 0.000728855 2745 10 99%
2001 2833 0.000756801 2827 6 100%
2002 3527 0.000943479 3521 6 100%
2003 3724 0.000979402 3718 6 100%
2004 3759 0.000983794 3743 16 99%
2005 3697 0.000961547 3681 16 99%
2006 4376 0.001106115 4370 6 100%
2007 5304 0.001326769 5293 11 100%
2008 4380 0.001114315 4372 8 100%
2009 4127 0.001080317 4117 10 100%
2010 3996 0.001081245 3996 100%
2011 3731 0.001020014 3731 100%
2012 3237 0.000885063 3232 5 100%
2013 3151 0.000864314 3151 100%
2014 2763 0.000745472 2763 100%
2015 2453 0.00066281 2453 100%
2016 2111 0.000575409 2105 6 99%
2017 1843 0.000515352 1843 100%
2018 1560 0.000443699 1560 100%
2019 1520 0.000437923 1520 100%
2020 1146 0.000343055 1146 100%
2021 1092 0.000322319 1092 100%
2022 1015 0.000300018 1015 100%
2023 890 0.000268785 890 100%
2024 808 0.000242752 808 100%

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