English use
Source-reportedA female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.
Source for this definition
- Jocelin — English definition (English Wiktionary via Kaikki)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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Jocelin
A given name in English
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- 1 language context
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01 / Meaning & origin
About Jocelin
Jocelin is a feminine given name documented in English.
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02 / Across borders
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United States, 2025: 8 girls (rank 10917). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
Popularity over time
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte)
1900–2025 Spelling: JOCELIN
Recorded category boys
- Latest · 2023
- 5
- births
- Rank #4,538
- Peak year
- 1997
- 20 births
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
Show the data table
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1925 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1942 | 5 | 673 | rounded |
| 1943 | 5 | 564 | rounded |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | 5 | 500 | rounded |
| 1946 | 5 | 978 | rounded |
| 1947 | 5 | 634 | rounded |
| 1948 | 5 | 814 | rounded |
| 1949 | 10 | 470 | rounded |
| 1950 | 10 | 503 | rounded |
| 1951 | 5 | 719 | rounded |
| 1952 | 5 | 714 | rounded |
| 1953 | 10 | 607 | rounded |
| 1954 | 10 | 643 | rounded |
| 1955 | 10 | 708 | rounded |
| 1956 | 5 | 784 | rounded |
| 1957 | 5 | 804 | rounded |
| 1958 | 5 | 906 | rounded |
| 1959 | 10 | 758 | rounded |
| 1960 | 5 | 1,065 | rounded |
| 1961 | 10 | 805 | rounded |
| 1962 | 5 | 903 | rounded |
| 1963 | 10 | 774 | rounded |
| 1964 | 5 | 1,757 | rounded |
| 1965 | 5 | 1,051 | rounded |
| 1966 | 5 | 949 | rounded |
| 1967 | 10 | 768 | rounded |
| 1968 | 15 | 691 | rounded |
| 1969 | 10 | 865 | rounded |
| 1970 | 10 | 944 | rounded |
| 1971 | 10 | 891 | rounded |
| 1972 | 10 | 1,088 | rounded |
| 1973 | 10 | 870 | rounded |
| 1974 | 5 | 1,229 | rounded |
| 1975 | 10 | 1,069 | rounded |
| 1976 | 5 | 1,357 | rounded |
| 1977 | 15 | 759 | rounded |
| 1978 | 10 | 947 | rounded |
| 1979 | 10 | 1,257 | rounded |
| 1980 | 5 | 1,927 | rounded |
| 1981 | 10 | 1,243 | rounded |
| 1982 | 10 | 1,072 | rounded |
| 1983 | 15 | 928 | rounded |
| 1984 | 5 | 2,337 | rounded |
| 1985 | 5 | 2,155 | rounded |
| 1986 | 15 | 912 | rounded |
| 1987 | 10 | 1,294 | rounded |
| 1988 | 5 | 1,577 | rounded |
| 1989 | 15 | 1,103 | rounded |
| 1990 | 15 | 1,088 | rounded |
| 1991 | 10 | 1,210 | rounded |
| 1992 | 15 | 1,161 | rounded |
| 1993 | 15 | 1,162 | rounded |
| 1994 | 15 | 1,247 | rounded |
| 1995 | 15 | 1,135 | rounded |
| 1996 | 15 | 1,334 | rounded |
| 1997 | 20 | 1,073 | rounded |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,002 | rounded |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,195 | rounded |
| 2000 | 15 | 1,227 | rounded |
| 2001 | 15 | 1,318 | rounded |
| 2002 | 15 | 1,361 | rounded |
| 2003 | 10 | 1,734 | rounded |
| 2004 | 20 | 1,181 | rounded |
| 2005 | 10 | 2,216 | rounded |
| 2006 | 15 | 1,727 | rounded |
| 2007 | 10 | 2,272 | rounded |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,481 | rounded |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,048 | rounded |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,368 | rounded |
| 2011 | 10 | 2,308 | rounded |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,486 | rounded |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,703 | rounded |
| 2014 | 15 | 2,083 | rounded |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,506 | rounded |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,318 | rounded |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | 5 | 4,249 | rounded |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | 5 | 7,084 | rounded |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,538 | rounded |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
About this dataset and its counting rules
Statistics count the spelling “JOCELIN” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
- Universe
- First given name (« PRENOM : premier prénom ») of persons registered at birth in the French civil register, as held in the RNIPP. Page wording: « prénoms attribués aux enfants nés en France entre 1900 et 2025 (les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte) »; « personnes nées en France métropolitaine et dans les départements-régions d'outre-mer ». Birth observations, not a living-population count.
- Rounding
- « VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
- Suppression
- Publication threshold (landing page): « Un prénom est diffusé s'il a été attribué au moins 3 fois à des personnes de sexe féminin ou à des personnes de sexe masculin : au niveau national : pour une année de naissance donnée [...] Les prénoms ne remplissant pas ces conditions ne sont pas diffusés. [...] L'absence d'un croisement sexe x prénom x année x zone géographique ne signifie donc pas forcément qu'il n'existe pas dans les données de l'état civil, mais qu'il comporte deux occurrences ou moins. » A missing sex/name/year row therefore means ≤ 2 occurrences, never 0. This release contains no grouped rare-names row (older releases used `_PRENOMS_RARES`); the spelling RARES present in the file is a real name (« le prénom d'origine roumaine « Rareș » apparaît en tant que « RARES » »).
- Ranking
- « RANG : rang calculé à partir des effectifs non arrondis selon le sexe, l'année de naissance et la zone géographique ; en cas d'égalité sur les valeurs non arrondies, un tri aléatoire est appliqué. » Ranks are published by INSEE from unrounded counts and are preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes them from the rounded counts. Ranks are unique within a sex/year (random tie-break by INSEE).
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
History
Historical scholarship
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
- 1884From the archives
Jocelin— “sportive”
_Jocelin_, _m._ _Fr._ _Eng._ Lat. sportive, 191
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
Notable bearers
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Jocelin Donahue
born 1981American actress
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06 / Behind the facts
Sources for this page
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.
Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms3
- Wikidata Q51844784CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Wiktionary: JocelinCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Jocelin — English definition (English Wiktionary via Kaikki)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1
- Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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