Josseline
Josseline was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,590 among girls’ names; 630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josseline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Josseline mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Josseline is “a female given name, variant of Jocelyne”
/ʒɔ.slin/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Josseline?
#8,590 among girls’ names, 2025
Josseline fell from #7,110 in 2015 to #8,590 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 7.5 per million.
46 babies in 2007, the peak
Josseline peaked in 2007, when 46 girls were given it, #3,559 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,590 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,646 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,215 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,381 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,748 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,385 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,955 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,605 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,050 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,110 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,249 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,951 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,861 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,703 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,164 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,788 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,699 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,559 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,156 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,523 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,128 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,012 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,118 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,900 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,586 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,521 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,679 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,280 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,656 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,801 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,836 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,308 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,894 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,657 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josseline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josseline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josseline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josseline, and how old are they?
An estimated 623 Americans named Josseline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,071 people named Josseline (1,071 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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.
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 Josseline born?
The states with the most babies named Josseline are California, Texas and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 109 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 65 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Josseline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Josseline is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 1.3 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 Josseline 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,938 babies since 1880, Josseline is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 49 babies (24%), 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 Josseline
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 Josseline and names like it
- Compare Josseline and JoselineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosseline peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josseline since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Josseline: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Josseline.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josseline alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.