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Jocelin

#11,360 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jocelyn

Jocelin has been given to 2,612 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #11,360 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Jocelin, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jocelin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jocelin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jocelyn

Germanic languages

What Jocelin means

Jocelin is a variant of Jocelyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jocelin is used in French and English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒo.se.lɛ̃/, /ˈd͡ʒɑs.lɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɑs.ə.lɪn/, /ˈd͡ʒɒs.lɪn/ and /ˈd͡ʒɒs.ə.lɪn/ for Jocelin.

Origin, language, and formation

Jocelin is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Jocelin is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jocelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,612 girls were recorded with the name Jocelin between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,351 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,644 in 2020 to #11,360 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,558 in 2015 to #11,360 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jocelin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,360
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jocelin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jocelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jocelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jocelin was born before 2003 — so the typical Jocelin is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,612
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (1,208).

Is Jocelin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,894
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−716
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,802
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.4%
Peak was 2007 (180)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,351
2007

Spellings of Jocelin

Jocelin is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 61.7% against Jocelin's 1.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jocelin is used

Across 1910–2025, Jocelin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 65,241 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nevada1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jocelin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jocelin around the world

Where Jocelin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Jocelin

People whose public names include Jocelin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jocelin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jocelin. Linked forms have their own page here.

JocelynJocelineJocelyneJoscelinJoseline

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jocelin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,360
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 716
Best rank ever
#1,351
2007
Peak year
2007
180 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,612
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jocelin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JocelyneMadelinShaylinJocelynnBraylinJoselinMarylinAshlinTaylinKaelinCaylinJocabedMaylinYoselinBrooklinDaylinCarlinRosalinCailinBerlinJaquelinMarlinSherlinJoceline

Names with a curve like Jocelin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jocelin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KierstynAshlinKaelinAlexsandraCatelynGiselHailyTyasiaKyliKailiShaylynnYazmine

Sibling names for Jocelin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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