Jolyn
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.
Jolyn by the numbers
Jolyn was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 51 babies in 1969, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jolyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jolyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jolyn
Names that are said the same way as Jolyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Jolyn
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