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Josselin

#12,487 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jocelyn

Josselin has been given to 859 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #12,487 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Josselin, 2025

1 in 474,000

Josselin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josselin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jocelyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josselin means

Josselin is a variant of Jocelyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Josselin is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒo.se.lɛ̃/ for Josselin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jocelyn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Josselin is pronounced /ʒɔ.slɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 859 girls were recorded with the name Josselin between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,839 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,211 in 2020 to #12,487 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,129 in 2015 to #12,487 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 Josselin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,487
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josselin 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josselin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josselins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josselin was born before 2007 — so the typical Josselin is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
859
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Choose a decade

2000s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (402).

Is Josselin 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
−5,977
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,276
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,358
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.9%
Peak was 2007 (64)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,839
2007

Spellings of Josselin

Josselin is not the most common spelling — Joselyn is, with 38.0% against Josselin's 1.8%.

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 Josselin is used

Across 1910–2025, Josselin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 171,690 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Josselin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Josselin around the world

Where Josselin 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
    2010–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010

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

Josselin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,276
Best rank ever
#2,839
2007
Peak year
2007
64 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
859
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Josselin

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

JoslinJoselinJoscelinJossalinJosalinJosefineJoshlynnJoselyneJosslinJoselynnJosslynnJoscelynJosilinJosilynJosselineJoshlynJosselynJosalynnJoselineNaydelinJosabethJoshelinJosalynJosslyn

Sibling names for Josselin

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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