Jocelyne
Jocelyne was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,133 among girls’ names; 4,228 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,140 Americans named Jocelyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jocelyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jocelyne mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Jocelyne is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century”
/ʒɔ.slin/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jocelyne?
#9,133 among girls’ names, 2025
Jocelyne fell from #3,558 in 2015 to #9,133 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 6.8 per million.
461 babies in 1996, the peak
Jocelyne peaked in 1996, when 461 girls were given it, #513 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,133 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,643 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,244 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,318 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,800 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,386 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,828 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,880 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,811 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,558 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,862 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,468 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,579 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,400 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 100 | #2,001 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,081 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,847 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,620 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,616 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,951 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,954 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,648 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,739 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 185 | #1,103 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 240 | #888 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 239 | #886 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 386 | #594 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 461 | #513 | 0.26 |
| 1995 | 351 | #623 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,015 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,564 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,944 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,817 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,724 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,544 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,644 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,579 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,559 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,030 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,036 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,287 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,751 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,400 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,203 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,428 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,114 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,203 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,117 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,265 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jocelyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jocelyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jocelyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jocelyne, and how old are they?
4,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,228 Americans ever recorded as Jocelyne. The median Jocelyne alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,916 people named Jocelyne (4,907 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 79 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 402 |
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 Jocelyne born?
The states with the most babies named Jocelyne are California, Texas and Illinois, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,650 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 715 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 246 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 106 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 72 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 45 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jocelyne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jocelyne is most over-represented in California: since 1945 it was given 2.9 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 Jocelyne 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,145 babies since 1880, Jocelyne is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 28 babies (39%), the second most given that year.
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 Jocelyne
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 Jocelyne and names like it
- Compare Jocelyne and JocelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJocelyne peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jocelyne since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Jocelyne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Jocelyne.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jocelyne alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.