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Joceline

Girls' name

Feminine form of Joscelin

Joceline has been given to 1,576 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Joceline, 2024

1 in 557,000

Joceline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joceline: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Joscelin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joceline means

Joceline is a feminine form of Joscelin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Joceline is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒɔs.lin/ for Joceline.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joscelin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,576 girls were recorded with the name Joceline between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,417 in 1996.

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.

How common is Joceline?

Joceline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joceline 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joceline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jocelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joceline was born before 2002 — so the typical Joceline is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,576
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Choose a decade

2000s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (714).

Is Joceline 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (117)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,417
1996

Spellings of Joceline

Joceline is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 65.9% against Joceline's 0.92%.

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 Joceline is used

Across 1910–2025, Joceline was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 72,297 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

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. Joceline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joceline around the world

Where Joceline 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.

  • France
    1924–2014
    #7,025
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1999–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1978–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joceline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,417
1996
Peak year
1996
117 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,576
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joceline

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

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Sibling names for Joceline

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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