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How popular is “Joycelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joycelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joycelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joycelyn” 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
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 19 0.000008252 19 100%
1924 25 0.000010497 25 100%
1925 33 0.000014143 33 100%
1926 42 0.000018293 42 100%
1927 56 0.000024145 56 100%
1928 52 0.000022999 52 100%
1929 56 0.000025546 56 100%
1930 68 0.000030585 68 100%
1931 79 0.000037541 79 100%
1932 59 0.000027945 59 100%
1933 76 0.000038011 76 100%
1934 71 0.000034187 71 100%
1935 91 0.000043543 91 100%
1936 78 0.000037544 78 100%
1937 84 0.000039424 84 100%
1938 75 0.000033897 75 100%
1939 68 0.000030861 68 100%
1940 67 0.000029096 67 100%
1941 86 0.000035298 86 100%
1942 78 0.000028552 78 100%
1943 66 0.000023383 66 100%
1944 50 0.000018587 50 100%
1945 69 0.000026009 69 100%
1946 77 0.000024098 77 100%
1947 81 0.000022485 81 100%
1948 79 0.000022882 79 100%
1949 83 0.000023818 83 100%
1950 89 0.000025404 89 100%
1951 99 0.000026875 99 100%
1952 105 0.000027646 105 100%
1953 108 0.000028025 108 100%
1954 108 0.000027131 108 100%
1955 156 0.000038854 156 100%
1956 149 0.000036138 149 100%
1957 125 0.000029747 125 100%
1958 92 0.000022255 92 100%
1959 97 0.000023329 97 100%
1960 80 0.000019259 80 100%
1961 106 0.00002559 106 100%
1962 92 0.000022798 92 100%
1963 73 0.000018443 73 100%
1964 89 0.000022893 89 100%
1965 100 0.000027583 100 100%
1966 91 0.000026182 91 100%
1967 76 0.000022387 76 100%
1968 97 0.000028712 97 100%
1969 92 0.000026472 92 100%
1970 74 0.000020518 74 100%
1971 73 0.000021268 73 100%
1972 57 0.000018136 57 100%
1973 39 0.000012927 39 100%
1974 51 0.000016776 51 100%
1975 58 0.000019209 58 100%
1976 58 0.000019115 58 100%
1977 59 0.000018574 59 100%
1978 54 0.000017014 54 100%
1979 52 0.00001563 52 100%
1980 58 0.000016838 58 100%
1981 53 0.000015321 53 100%
1982 58 0.000016534 58 100%
1983 69 0.000019923 69 100%
1984 79 0.000022644 79 100%
1985 61 0.000017091 61 100%
1986 62 0.00001743 62 100%
1987 52 0.000014422 52 100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 100%
1989 80 0.000020809 80 100%
1990 56 0.000014168 56 100%
1991 83 0.000021308 83 100%
1992 75 0.000019525 75 100%
1993 81 0.000021484 81 100%
1994 74 0.000019905 74 100%
1995 74 0.000020207 74 100%
1996 56 0.000015354 56 100%
1997 62 0.0000171 62 100%
1998 52 0.000014137 52 100%
1999 51 0.000013807 51 100%
2000 57 0.00001508 57 100%
2001 41 0.000010953 41 100%
2002 48 0.00001284 48 100%
2003 46 0.000012098 46 100%
2004 42 0.000010992 42 100%
2005 52 0.000013525 52 100%
2006 76 0.00001921 76 100%
2007 49 0.000012257 49 100%
2008 46 0.000011703 46 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 34 0.0000092 34 100%
2011 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2012 36 0.000009843 36 100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 100%
2015 16 0.000004323 16 100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 100%
2018 27 0.000007679 27 100%
2019 39 0.000011236 39 100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 100%
2022 27 0.000007981 27 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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