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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Joscelin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joscelin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joscelin” 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 “Joscelin” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joscelin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joscelin” 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
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%

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