Joselin

#5,629 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jocelyn

Joselin has been given to 4,204 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #5,629 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 387 recorded.

Babies named Joselin, 2025

1 in 151,000

Joselin over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joselin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jocelyn

Germanic languages

What Joselin means

Joselin is a variant of Jocelyn.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Joselin is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jocelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,204 girls were recorded with the name Joselin between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 387 in 2007; its best national rank was #755 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,392 in 2020 to #5,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,667 in 2015 to #5,629 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 Joselin?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 151,000; 22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 73,100; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #5,629; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 104,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Joselin 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joselin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joselins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joselin was born before 2006 — so the typical Joselin is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 4,204; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (2,146).

Is Joselin 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: −1,382; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,237; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −2,962; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.33×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 5.7%; Peak was 2007 (387)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #755; 2007

Spellings of Joselin

Joselin is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 51.1% against Joselin's 1.9%.

Jocelyn51.1%113,061
Joselyn8.2%18,214
Roselyn6.6%14,556
Josefina6.3%13,932
Joslyn5.1%11,227
Yoselin3.1%6,772
Joselin1.9%4,204
Joseline1.7%3,798

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 Joselin is used

Across 1910–2025, Joselin was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 43,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Arizona1 in 16,667
2California1 in 20,000
3Nevada1 in 20,000
4Texas1 in 20,000
5Colorado1 in 33,333
6Florida1 in 33,333
7Georgia1 in 33,333
8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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

Joselin around the world

Where Joselin 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
1951–1951
#1,083
in 1951

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Joselin in other languages

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

Joslin Joselyn Joscelin Joselina Joseline JosselinJoselio

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

Joselin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #5,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,237
Best rank ever: #755; 2007
Peak year: 2007; 387 that year
First recorded: 1967
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 4,204
Count in 2025: 22

Names similar to Joselin

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

Joslin Josselin Joslynn Josette Josslyn Josalyn Josefa Joseline Josalin Josselyn Joscelin Joshlyn Marylin Josslin Josilyn Joscelyn Joselyn Jossie Madelin Josephina Joseph Jocelin Yoselin Joslyn

Names with a curve like Joselin

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

Brookelyn Jalynn Jaylyn Abrianna Emalee Nyasia Cailyn Makaila Jordin Sheyla Cloe Abagail

Sibling names for Joselin

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

For a sister

Taniya Rhianna Yahaira Abigale Abigayle Tayla Hayleigh Yajaira

For a brother

Gavyn Nevin Zakary Brennen Kale Nathen Brandt Keven

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