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Jocelin

Girl · Germanic

Jocelin is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Jocelin mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Jocelin a girl's or a boy's name?

Jocelin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jocelin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Jocelin, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 180 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.

Half of all the girls named Jocelin in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1966Busiest: 180 in 20072025
Jocelin in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20246#13,472
20238#11,164
20228#11,225
20218#11,141
20209#10,245
201914#7,712
201817#6,788
201719#6,283
201626#5,129
201524#5,456
201455#3,039
201346#3,402
201263#2,769
201199#1,982
201087#2,220
2009106#1,956
2008118#1,824
2007180#1,351
2006168#1,366
2005113#1,740
2004108#1,768
2003123#1,560
2002102#1,769
2001101#1,762
200089#1,896
199967#2,219
199877#1,955
199776#1,911
199693#1,639
199561#2,184
199467#2,054
199382#1,772
199280#1,794
199137#3,030
199032#3,359
198928#3,560
198818#4,648
198718#4,471
198613#5,456
198518#4,280
198413#5,221
198311#5,822
19820–
19817#8,126
198012#5,543
19796#9,008
197815#4,459
197712#5,212
19760–
197511#5,159
19745#8,773
19739#5,578
19729#5,479
19718#6,004
19707#6,361
19695#7,469
19680–
19675#6,803
19665#6,563

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