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Jocelyn
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɒsəlɪn/
Rank in 2024
#389
Born in 2024
808
Peak year
2007 · #50
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 808 girls were named Jocelyn, about 1 in every 1,997.
- It peaked in 2007 with 5,293 babies, ranked #50.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 112,257 girls have been named Jocelyn since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jocelyn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 2.0Gen Z1997–12
- 1.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 470 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 1,156 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,486 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,539 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Millennials: 21,227 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Z: 57,027 babies, 1.96 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,346 babies, 1.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From the Middle English male given name from Old French Joscelin, German Gautzelin, diminutive of names beginning with the tribal name Gaut (“a Geat, a Goth”), the root form of which probably comes from Proto-Germanic *Gautalinþiz (from *gautaz + *linþaz); also used as a diminutive form of the Breton name Josse (= Joyce). It survived as a surname and was revived as a given name in the nineteenth century. Jocelyn is currently popular among U.S. Hispanics, and in the Philippines, by folk etymology explained as a feminine diminutive form of José (Joseph).
- (dated) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɒsəlɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jocelyn, CC BY-SA 4.0.