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How popular is “Jossalyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jossalyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jossalyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jossalyn” 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
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 100%
2006 31 0.000007836 31 100%
2007 36 0.000009005 36 100%
2008 34 0.00000865 34 100%
2009 31 0.000008115 31 100%
2010 29 0.000007847 29 100%
2011 34 0.000009295 34 100%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%

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