Joycelyn
Joycelyn reached its high-water mark in 1955 at number 763, and has been recorded 6,622 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 5,000 Joycelyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joycelyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,622
- Estimated living today
- 5,000
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1955
- Best rank
- 763rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,838th
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Joycelyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,622 babies given the name since 1916, about 5,000 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 490 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Joycelyns
- Joycelyn Elders (born 1933)American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
People named Joycelyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joycelyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joycelyn is most concentrated in Louisiana (20.0×), Hawaii (4.2×), Alabama (2.7×), Texas (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1955
The most popular girls’ names the year Joycelyn peaked:
Joycelyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Joycelyn | 30 | 3,214th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Joycelyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.