Yocelyn
Yocelyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,138 among girls’ names; 931 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yocelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yocelyn?
#13,138 among girls’ names, 2025
Yocelyn fell from #6,968 in 2015 to #13,138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 4.4 per million.
88 babies in 2007, the peak
Yocelyn peaked in 2007, when 88 girls were given it, #2,247 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,138 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,080 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,227 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,203 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,179 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,100 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,090 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,514 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,820 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,782 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,968 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,449 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 22 | #6,004 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,849 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,718 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,687 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,406 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,773 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,247 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,052 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,721 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,561 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,526 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,881 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,437 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,071 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,413 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,018 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,708 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,175 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,028 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,513 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,412 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,302 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,429 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,231 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yocelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yocelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yocelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yocelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 921 Americans named Yocelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 731 people named Yocelyn (725 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 870 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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 Yocelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Yocelyn are California, Texas and Illinois, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 281 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 90 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Yocelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yocelyn is most over-represented in California: since 1987 it was given 2.2 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 Yocelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Yocelyn?
Yocelyn is a less common spelling of Yoselin: SSA has recorded 931 Yocelyn and 6,772 Yoselin since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,759 babies since 1880, Yocelyn is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 102 babies (6.9%), 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 Yocelyn
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 Yocelyn and names like it
- Compare Yocelyn and YoselinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYocelyn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yocelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Yocelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yocelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.