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Yosselyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
YOH-seh-lin
Origin
Germanic

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

What does Yosselyn mean?

Germanic: spelling of Yoselyn; Spanish-style spelling of Jocelyn

A Latin American spelling of Jocelyn, originally a medieval boys' name from the Germanic Gautselin.

Meaning borrowed from Yoselyn.

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

Yosselyn is a girls' name.

How popular is Yosselyn 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 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

Half of all the girls named Yosselyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1992Busiest: 26 in 20072024
Yosselyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#13,472
20230–
20225#15,300
20218#11,141
20200–
20197#12,442
20180–
20175#15,898
20165#16,210
20157#13,001
20146#14,552
20139#10,995
20120–
20118#12,146
201011#9,786
200914#8,450
200815#8,105
200726#5,374
200615#7,865
20055#16,455
20047#12,754
20039#10,420
20028#11,102
20010–
20007#11,794
19990–
19985#14,116
19970–
19966#11,801
19950–
19940–
19937#10,581
19925#13,308

Names like Yosselyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Yosselyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yosselyn, updated 20 October 2026.