Jocelynn
Jocelynn was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,178 among girls’ names; 6,725 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,650 Americans named Jocelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jocelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jocelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jocelynn is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A rare non-standard spelling of Jocelyn with -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jocelynn?
#2,178 among girls’ names, 2025
Jocelynn fell from #999 in 2015 to #2,178 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.05 per 1,000.
392 babies in 2010, the peak
Jocelynn peaked in 2010, when 392 girls were given it, #720 among girls’ names. The 85 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,178 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,161 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,478 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,853 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,035 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,764 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,578 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 201 | #1,204 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 219 | #1,150 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 270 | #999 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 272 | #983 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 341 | #796 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 359 | #768 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 380 | #730 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 392 | #720 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 315 | #874 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 321 | #870 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 334 | #851 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 255 | #1,009 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 209 | #1,127 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,131 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 201 | #1,095 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 200 | #1,064 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,602 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,404 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 120 | #1,451 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,461 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,790 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,522 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,257 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,066 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,903 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,437 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,708 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,195 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,774 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,879 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,046 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,913 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,825 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,491 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,148 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,261 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,288 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,718 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,204 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jocelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jocelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jocelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jocelynn, and how old are they?
6,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,725 Americans ever recorded as Jocelynn. The median Jocelynn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 4,884 people named Jocelynn (4,878 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 116 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 658 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,160 |
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 Jocelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Jocelynn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,242 | 1.5× |
| California | 11 | #1,890 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,078 | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #657 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,307 | 0.6× |
Where Jocelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jocelynn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1955 it was given 1.5 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 Jocelynn 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 131,148 babies since 1880, Jocelynn is the second most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 902 babies (9.4%), again the second 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 Jocelynn
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 Jocelynn and names like it
- Compare Jocelynn and JocelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJocelynn peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jocelynn since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Jocelynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jocelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jocelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.