Josseline

#8,590 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jocelyn

Josseline has been given to 630 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,590 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Josseline, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josseline: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jocelyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josseline means

Josseline is a variant of Jocelyn.

Origin, language, and formation

Josseline is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jocelyn and Jocelyne.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 630 girls were recorded with the name Josseline between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,559 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,748 in 2020 to #8,590 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,110 in 2015 to #8,590 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.

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How common is Josseline?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 276,000; 12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 134,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #8,590; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 191,493 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Josseline 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josseline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josselines were born

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

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 630; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (290).

Is Josseline 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: +2,056; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +4,158; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,480; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.71×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 26.1%; Peak was 2007 (46)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,559; 2007

Spellings of Josseline

Josseline is not the most common spelling — Joselin is, with 22.1% against Josseline's 3.3%.

Joselin22.1%4,204
Joseline20.0%3,798
Josselyn17.5%3,330
Joceline8.3%1,576
Roseline7.4%1,400
Joselyne6.1%1,158
Josselin4.5%859
Yoseline4.3%809

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 Josseline is used

Across 1910–2025, Josseline was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 262,492 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2Texas1 in 100,000
3Florida1 in —
4New York1 in —
5Virginia1 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. Josseline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Josseline around the world

Where Josseline 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
1912–1994
#2,678
in 1994

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

Josseline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,590
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 4,158
Best rank ever: #3,559; 2007
Peak year: 2007; 46 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 630
Count in 2025: 12

Names similar to Josseline

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

Sibling names for Josseline

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

Abagail Rhianna Taniya Sydnee Shakira Madisen Lesli Destiney

For a brother

Aaden Kale Keven Gavyn Nevin Zakary Brennen Nathen

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