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Jocelyne

#9,133 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Joscelin

Jocelyne has been given to 4,228 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #9,133 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 461 recorded.

Babies named Jocelyne, 2025

1 in 301,000

Jocelyne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jocelyne: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Joscelin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jocelyne means

Jocelyne is a feminine form of Joscelin.

Origin, language, and formation

Jocelyne is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joscelin and Jocelyn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Jocelyne is pronounced /ʒɔ.slin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,228 girls were recorded with the name Jocelyne between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 461 in 1996; its best national rank was #513 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,386 in 2020 to #9,133 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,558 in 2015 to #9,133 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 Jocelyne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,133
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jocelyne 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jocelyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jocelynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jocelyne was born before 1999 — so the typical Jocelyne is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,206
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1990s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (1,949).

Is Jocelyne 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
+1,510
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,747
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,575
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.4%
Peak was 1996 (461)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#513
1996

Spellings of Jocelyne

Jocelyne is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 66.4% against Jocelyne's 2.5%.

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 Jocelyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Jocelyne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 25,788 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Nevada1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arizona1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Jocelyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jocelyne around the world

Where Jocelyne 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
    2007–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    1908–2024
    #4,554
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1956–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jocelyne

People whose public names include Jocelyne, 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.

Jocelyne in other languages

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

JocelinJocelynJocelineJoselineJoselyneJoscelyneJosselyne

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

Jocelyne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,133
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,747
Best rank ever
#513
1996
Peak year
1996
461 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,228
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Jocelyne

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

JocelynnJocelinCarolyneMadelyneEvelyneJasmyneJazmyneJocelineJoselyneJocelynneKatheryneElayneKathryneMadalyneShayneJochebedAdelyneJocabedJailyneAdalyneBrooklyneEmmalyneMadilyneLayne

Names with a curve like Jocelyne

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

JaileneDejahDajaMicaylaShianneMikalaTatyanaMakalaOdalisLexusDaijaDaisha

Sibling names for Jocelyne

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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