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Jozie vs Jozlynn

American parents have registered 1,343 Jozies since 1880, against 678 Jozlynns. Jozie is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jozie against Jozlynn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jozie 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 35 years in which either name was published, Jozie for 33 years and Jozlynn for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jozie Jozlynn
Total US births 1,343678
Most in one year 6356
Babies in 2025 50under 5
Estimated living today 1,300670
Median age today 1215
Peak year 20222010
Best rank 2,720th girls3,010th girls
Rank in 2025 3,167thunranked
First recorded 19901990
Girls / boys 1,343 / 0678 / 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 Jozies are over 12. That is 3 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: Jozie and Jozlynn.