Joycelyn
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joycelyn is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 76th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- GYGuyana1 in 1.5K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 38K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.3K ●
- Sources
- 284 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 4 countries
69K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,752 | 55K rec. | 1 in 58K | 5.8K | Joycelyn | 284 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,404 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,666 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 72 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,130 | 1K rec. | — | 1 | Joycelyn | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | 906 | 877 rec. | — | 6 | Joycelyn | 50 |
| SG Singapore | #692 | 697 | 583 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 65 |
| GH Ghana | #309 | 555 | 372 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 50 |
| GY Guyana | #76 | 501 | 623 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 501 | Joycelyn | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 407 | 341 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 36 |
| JM Jamaica | #224 | 387 | 401 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | 133 | 121 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 24 |
| AR Argentina | — | 120 | 116 rec. | — | — | Joycelyn | 3 |
Roughly 5.8K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 58K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English66K81%
- Spanish3.8K5%
- 2.9K4%
- Swahili5971%
- Portuguese4571%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 65,784 | 81% |
| Spanish | 3,766 | 5% |
| 2,904 | 4% | |
| Swahili | 597 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 457 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 7 |
| 1918 | 11 |
| 1919 | 8 |
| 1920 | 12 |
| 1921 | 14 |
| 1922 | 17 |
| 1923 | 19 |
| 1924 | 25 |
| 1925 | 33 |
| 1926 | 42 |
| 1927 | 56 |
| 1928 | 52 |
| 1929 | 56 |
| 1930 | 68 |
| 1931 | 79 |
| 1932 | 59 |
| 1933 | 76 |
| 1934 | 71 |
| 1935 | 91 |
| 1936 | 78 |
| 1937 | 85 |
| 1938 | 75 |
| 1939 | 67 |
| 1940 | 67 |
| 1941 | 86 |
| 1942 | 78 |
| 1943 | 66 |
| 1944 | 50 |
| 1945 | 69 |
| 1946 | 77 |
| 1947 | 81 |
| 1948 | 79 |
| 1949 | 83 |
| 1950 | 89 |
| 1951 | 99 |
| 1952 | 105 |
| 1953 | 108 |
| 1954 | 108 |
| 1955 | 156 |
| 1956 | 149 |
| 1957 | 125 |
| 1958 | 92 |
| 1959 | 97 |
| 1960 | 80 |
| 1961 | 106 |
| 1962 | 92 |
| 1963 | 73 |
| 1964 | 89 |
| 1965 | 100 |
| 1966 | 91 |
| 1967 | 76 |
| 1968 | 96 |
| 1969 | 93 |
| 1970 | 74 |
| 1971 | 73 |
| 1972 | 57 |
| 1973 | 39 |
| 1974 | 51 |
| 1975 | 58 |
| 1976 | 58 |
| 1977 | 59 |
| 1978 | 54 |
| 1979 | 52 |
| 1980 | 58 |
| 1981 | 53 |
| 1982 | 58 |
| 1983 | 69 |
| 1984 | 79 |
| 1985 | 61 |
| 1986 | 62 |
| 1987 | 52 |
| 1988 | 42 |
| 1989 | 80 |
| 1990 | 56 |
| 1991 | 83 |
| 1992 | 75 |
| 1993 | 81 |
| 1994 | 74 |
| 1995 | 74 |
| 1996 | 56 |
| 1997 | 62 |
| 1998 | 52 |
| 1999 | 51 |
| 2000 | 57 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 48 |
| 2003 | 46 |
| 2004 | 42 |
| 2005 | 52 |
| 2006 | 76 |
| 2007 | 49 |
| 2008 | 46 |
| 2009 | 34 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 36 |
| 2013 | 31 |
| 2014 | 27 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 27 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 22 |
| 2022 | 27 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Joy Beverleyb. 1924GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer (1924-2015)
- Joycelyn Eldersb. 1933USAmerican pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
- Joycelyn Kob. 1986CAbadminton player
- Joycelyn WilsonUSProfessor in Black media studies
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 25 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.8K | #3,571 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 501 | #185 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 156 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 149 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 125 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 108 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 108 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 106 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 105 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 100 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 99 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 97 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 150 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Joycelyn?
- We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Joycelyn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Joycelyn have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.8 thousand people bear Joycelyn in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joycelyn.
- Where is Joycelyn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Joycelyn is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Joycelyn compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Joycelyn is the 76th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Joycelyn a male or female name?
- Joycelyn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joycelyn” — the 76th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.