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Joscelyn

#11,367 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Joscelyn has been given to 2,123 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #11,367 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Joscelyn, 2025

1 in 414,000

Joscelyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joscelyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joscelyn means

Joscelyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Joscelyn

Wikidata records Joscelyn as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q19345772, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,123 girls were recorded with the name Joscelyn between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,820 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,372 in 2020 to #11,367 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,648 in 2015 to #11,367 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.

How common is Joscelyn?

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
#11,367
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joscelyn 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 Joscelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joscelyns were born

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

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,118
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (807).

Is Joscelyn 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
−2,149
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,995
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,719
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 2007 (117)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,820
2007

Spellings of Joscelyn

Joscelyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 55.1% against Joscelyn's 1.0%.

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 Joscelyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Joscelyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 139,793 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Iowa1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Joscelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joscelyn around the world

Where Joscelyn 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
    1997–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–1999
    #2,199
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1953–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Joscelyn

People whose public names include Joscelyn, 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.

Joscelyn in other languages

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

JosJocelynJoselynJoscelinJoscelyne

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

Joscelyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,367
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,995
Best rank ever
#1,820
2007
Peak year
2007
117 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,123
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Joscelyn

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

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Names with a curve like Joscelyn

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

SeannaKyliKaydeeJaquelynShaylynnBrennanAnaliciaCatelynRayannaAlexsandraDeziraeNadya

Sibling names for Joscelyn

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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