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Jozette vs Jozlyn

American parents have registered 1,174 Jozlyns since 1880, against 513 Jozettes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jozette against Jozlyn, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jozette Jozlyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Jozlyn for 32 years and Jozette for 28 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Jozette Jozlyn
Total US births 5131,174
Most in one year 2984
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4901,200
Median age today 4117
Peak year 19702010
Best rank 2,522nd girls2,274th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19611983
Girls / boys 513 / 01,174 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jozettes alive today are over 41; half the Jozlyns are over 17. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jozette and Jozlyn.