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Joziah vs Jozlynn

American parents have registered 5,369 Joziahs since 1880, against 678 Jozlynns. Joziah is still ahead, with 221 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joziah against Jozlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joziah Jozlynn

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 33 years in which either name was published, Joziah for 28 years and Jozlynn for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Joziah Jozlynn
Total US births 5,369678
Most in one year 36556
Babies in 2025 221under 5
Estimated living today 5,300670
Median age today 815
Peak year 20192010
Best rank 693rd boys3,010th girls
Rank in 2025 1,015thunranked
First recorded 19951990
Girls / boys 5 / 5,364678 / 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 Jozlynns alive today are over 15; half the Joziahs are over 8. That is 7 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: Joziah and Jozlynn.