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Yocelin

Girl · YOH-seh-leen · Germanic

Yocelin is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “one of the Gauts (a Germanic tribe)”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Yocelin mean?

Germanic: Spanish phonetic spelling of Jocelyn, via Old French

“one of the Gauts (a Germanic tribe)”

A Latin American spelling of Jocelyn, which came from Norman French Joscelin, originally a man's name.

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YOH-seh-leen

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

Yocelin is a girls' name.

How popular is Yocelin in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 117 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Yocelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 117 in 20072024
Yocelin in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
202210#9,674
202114#7,625
20207#12,137
201911#9,106
201814#7,758
201719#6,283
201619#6,398
201521#6,034
201423#5,623
201330#4,643
201247#3,418
201150#3,266
201046#3,469
200949#3,360
200867#2,718
2007117#1,815
200689#2,165
200549#3,166
200446#3,261
200343#3,343
200234#3,806
200137#3,545
200030#4,074
199918#5,655
199819#5,359
199722#4,656
199621#4,734
199516#5,672
199417#5,440
199324#4,252
199222#4,521
19918#9,328
19900–
19896#10,841

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