Josselin

Gender: Girl
Say it: JOS-a-lin
Origin: Germanic
US rank, 2025: #11,928 for girls

Josselin is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “one of the Gauts, a Germanic tribe”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Josselin mean?

Germanic: spelling of Joselin, itself a variant of Jocelyn

“one of the Gauts, a Germanic tribe”

A spelling of Jocelyn, which began as a Norman man's name before becoming a girl's name.

Meaning borrowed from Joselin.

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

Josselin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Josselin in the US?

Rank in 2025: 11,928th among girls
Babies in 2025: 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend: Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Josselin, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 64 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

2025 had the fewest girls named Josselin since it first appeared, in 1992.

Half of all the girls named Josselin in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1992Busiest: 64 in 20072025

Josselin in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	7	#11,928
2024	18	#6,391
2023	12	#8,481
2022	11	#9,050
2021	15	#7,245
2020	11	#8,948
2019	16	#7,021
2018	16	#7,096
2017	21	#5,817
2016	25	#5,283
2015	21	#6,034
2014	20	#6,205
2013	29	#4,753
2012	31	#4,599
2011	32	#4,465
2010	43	#3,623
2009	40	#3,869
2008	57	#3,016
2007	64	#2,822
2006	51	#3,223
2005	41	#3,583
2004	38	#3,744
2003	28	#4,531
2002	34	#3,806
2001	27	#4,442
2000	22	#5,146
1999	24	#4,571
1998	17	#5,794
1997	13	#6,839
1996	16	#5,766
1995	17	#5,434
1994	11	#7,598
1993	13	#6,615
1992	18	#5,260