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Joclyn

Girl · JOS-lin · Germanic

Joclyn is a girls' name of Germanic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Joclyn mean?

Germanic: contracted spelling of Jocelyn

Jocelyn was originally a man's name, brought to England by the Normans.

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

Joclyn is a girls' name.

How popular is Joclyn in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.

Half of all the girls named Joclyn in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1966Busiest: 31 in 20102024
Joclyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20245#15,288
20230–
20220–
20215#15,246
20200–
20190–
20180–
20176#14,120
20167#12,871
20159#10,861
20146#14,552
20130–
201211#9,706
201114#8,192
201031#4,607
200924#5,707
200824#5,747
200717#7,390
200621#6,123
200522#5,595
200413#8,254
200320#5,790
200224#4,902
200118#6,062
200015#6,802
199920#5,213
199822#4,793
199715#6,158
199617#5,526
199517#5,434
199418#5,244
199312#7,031
199213#6,645
199115#5,943
199015#5,829
198912#6,525
198816#5,060
198717#4,656
19865#10,907
198513#5,346
198411#5,898
198311#5,822
19827#8,222
198117#4,343
198010#6,318
197913#5,091
197819#3,777
197715#4,424
19765#9,282
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19707#6,361
19695#7,469
19680–
19670–
19665#6,563

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