Jocelin
Jocelin was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,360 among girls’ names; 2,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,570 Americans named Jocelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jocelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jocelin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jocelin is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jocelin?
#11,360 among girls’ names, 2025
Jocelin fell from #5,558 in 2015 to #11,360 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 5.0 per million.
180 babies in 2007, the peak
Jocelin peaked in 2007, when 180 girls were given it, #1,351 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,360 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,254 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,641 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,666 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,576 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,644 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,916 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,928 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,390 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,205 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,558 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,055 | 30.8 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,426 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,787 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,991 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,229 | 48.9 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,965 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 118 | #1,830 | 62.4 |
| 2007 | 180 | #1,351 | 93.6 |
| 2006 | 168 | #1,369 | 88.4 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,747 | 61.2 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,772 | 58.8 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,568 | 67.3 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,774 | 56.8 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,767 | 56.1 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,903 | 49.0 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,234 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,961 | 43.6 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,918 | 43.7 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,646 | 53.1 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,195 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,065 | 37.5 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,779 | 45.3 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,804 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,048 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,389 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,602 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,723 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,550 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,568 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,338 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,336 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,971 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,480 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,674 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,455 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,530 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,332 | 7.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,286 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,315 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,750 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,661 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,250 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,620 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,945 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,224 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,002 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jocelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jocelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jocelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jocelin, and how old are they?
2,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,612 Americans ever recorded as Jocelin. The median Jocelin alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,406 people named Jocelin (2,299 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 565 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 246 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jocelin born?
The states with the most babies named Jocelin are California, Texas and Illinois, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 734 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 319 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 112 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 9 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jocelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jocelin is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jocelin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 130,605 babies since 1880, Jocelin is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 897 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jocelin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jocelin and names like it
- Compare Jocelin and JocelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJocelin peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jocelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jocelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jocelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.