Joceline
Joceline was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,576 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Joceline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joceline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joceline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,255, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
117 babies in 1996, the peak
Joceline peaked in 1996, when 117 girls were given it, #1,417 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,255 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,736 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,263 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,190 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,584 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,867 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,102 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,712 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,192 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,852 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 28 | #4,948 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,611 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,631 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,278 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,623 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,136 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,844 | 59.8 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,294 | 43.7 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,709 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,270 | 41.9 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,422 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,184 | 42.3 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,492 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,973 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,024 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,905 | 45.3 |
| 1997 | 98 | #1,618 | 56.3 |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,417 | 66.7 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,626 | 51.7 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,256 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,622 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,715 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,706 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,058 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,327 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,690 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,422 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,627 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joceline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joceline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joceline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joceline, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,576 Americans ever recorded as Joceline. The median Joceline alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,716 people named Joceline (1,714 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 343 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 119 |
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 Joceline born?
The states with the most babies named Joceline are California, Texas and Illinois, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 600 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 218 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 32 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Joceline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joceline is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 2.7 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 Joceline 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,515 babies since 1880, Joceline is the second most given (24% of them).
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 Joceline
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 Joceline and names like it
- Compare Joceline and JocelyneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJoceline peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joceline since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Joceline.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joceline alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.