The JOSLYN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,532	11416	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	1,066	5176	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+1466	-6240	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	28	40824	0	2
United Kingdom	154	19119	0	3

Top States for JOSLYN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	360	5345	0.002	19
Florida	205	9032	0.001	13
California	180	13640	0.001	5
Michigan	178	6873	0.002	18
Maine	148	1603	0.012	116
Top States for JOSLYN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	148	1603	0.012	116
New Hampshire	77	2430	0.006	62
Vermont	31	3197	0.005	51
Wyoming	24	2705	0.005	49
Connecticut	96	4725	0.003	28

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOSLYN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOSLYN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOSLYN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOSLYN by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOSLYN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JOSLYN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JOSLYN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JOSLYN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	55	2.17
White (Hispanic)	50	1.97
Black/African American	45	1.78
Asian/Pacific	18	0.71
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.59
White (Caucasian)	2,349	92.77

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOSLYN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JOSLYN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOSLYN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.