Joscelin
Joscelin was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 243 Americans have been recorded with it between 1994 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joscelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joscelin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,737, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 2006, the peak
Joscelin peaked in 2006, when 35 girls were given it, #4,205 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #13,737 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,175 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,869 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,475 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,858 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,713 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,674 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,205 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,974 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,837 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 13 | #8,213 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,559 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,943 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,202 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,795 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,214 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,773 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,484 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joscelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joscelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joscelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joscelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Joscelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 18 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Joscelin (249 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Joscelin is a less common spelling of Jocelyn: SSA has recorded 243 Joscelin and 113,412 Jocelyn since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joscelin
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.