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How popular is “Josselyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josselyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josselyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josselyn” 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
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 19 0.000005341 19 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 100%
1990 30 0.00000759 30 100%
1991 37 0.000009499 37 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 51 0.000013527 51 100%
1994 46 0.000012373 46 100%
1995 42 0.000011469 42 100%
1996 64 0.000017548 64 100%
1997 49 0.000013514 49 100%
1998 50 0.000013594 50 100%
1999 54 0.000014619 54 100%
2000 60 0.000015873 60 100%
2001 69 0.000018432 69 100%
2002 71 0.000018993 71 100%
2003 88 0.000023144 88 100%
2004 111 0.000029051 111 100%
2005 118 0.00003069 118 100%
2006 172 0.000043476 172 100%
2007 257 0.000064287 257 100%
2008 188 0.000047829 188 100%
2009 169 0.000044239 169 100%
2010 166 0.000044917 166 100%
2011 151 0.000041282 151 100%
2012 148 0.000040466 148 100%
2013 131 0.000035933 131 100%
2014 125 0.000033726 125 100%
2015 100 0.00002702 100 100%
2016 103 0.000028075 103 100%
2017 94 0.000026285 94 100%
2018 68 0.000019341 68 100%
2019 68 0.000019591 68 100%
2020 58 0.000017362 58 100%
2021 48 0.000014168 48 100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 100%
2023 55 0.00001661 55 100%
2024 49 0.000014721 49 100%

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