Joslin

Joslin is the 5,259th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,407 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,407
Rank: 5,259th
How common: 1 in 46,700
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

English surname, borrowed through French from a Germanic name, from *Gauzelin, a diminutive of names formed from Gaut, from Proto-Germanic *gautaz (“Geat”). The name was also influenced by French Josse (see Joyce).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Joslin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Joslin

Samuel Joslin (born 2002)British actor
Margaret Joslin (1883–1956)American actress

People named Joslin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Joslin

Also a first name

Joslin has been given to 1,416 American babies as a first name since 1951, peaking in 2010. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.