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How popular is “Josilyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josilyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josilyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josilyn” 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
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 100%
1993 18 0.000004774 18 100%
1994 20 0.00000538 20 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 100%
1998 26 0.000007069 26 100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 39 0.000010433 39 100%
2003 43 0.000011309 43 100%
2004 42 0.000010992 42 100%
2005 57 0.000014825 57 100%
2006 69 0.000017441 69 100%
2007 66 0.00001651 66 100%
2008 46 0.000011703 46 100%
2009 58 0.000015183 58 100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 100%
2011 51 0.000013943 51 100%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 100%
2013 53 0.000014538 53 100%
2014 31 0.000008364 31 100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 100%
2016 38 0.000010358 38 100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 19 0.000005474 19 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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