Jocelyn

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jocelyn is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 460◐
  • USUnited States1 in 3.4K
  • CACanada1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈99K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
462 ●

748K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.4K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jocelyn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#25363,671344K rec.——Jocelyn158
US United States#84497,756327K rec.1 in 3.4K98KJocelyn462
CA Canada#53719,44713K rec.—8Jocelyn203
GB United Kingdom#81218,55816K rec.—3Jocelyn163
AU Australia#69516,95015K rec.——Jocelyn182
ID Indonesia—5,3454.4K rec.——Jocelyn69
MY Malaysia—3,4332.4K rec.——Jocelyn70
NL Netherlands—2,484625 rec.—271Jocelyn56
SG Singapore#2522,4492K rec.——Jocelyn103
NZ New Zealand#2501,6771.1K rec.—11Jocelyn85
TH Thailand—1,277831 rec.——Jocelyn42
IT Italy—1,2521.2K rec.——Jocelyn36

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English763K65%
  • Spanish208K18%
  • French94K8%
  • 18K2%
  • Portuguese12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English763,18365%
Spanish208,33618%
French93,7878%
17,7862%
Portuguese12,1991%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jocelyn is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name238K records spelled Jocelyn12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Philippines, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Jócelyn, Jöcelyn, Jöcëlyn, Jocëlyn, J'Ocelyn

  • Polish given name1.7K records spelled Jocelyn8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Жослин, Жоселин, Zhoslin

  • Turkish given name726 records spelled Jocelyn3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Jöcêlyn

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jocelyn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, The merry one; girl's name

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, ) Joceline ['d33slin]: aus dem

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, variant spelling of JOSLIN.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020005.3K · 2007

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Jocelyn in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1900–2025
Yearrecords
19006
19105
19115
19128
19139
191410
191511
191624
191727
191820
191923
192025
192133
192224
192346
192444
192548
192645
192763
192864
192980
193067
193185
193262
193363
193475
193551
193672
193750
193844
193973
194056
194160
194262
194373
194447
194572
194670
194772
194879
194997
1950136
1951276
1952255
1953308
1954304
1955383
1956404
1957353
1958306
1959241
1960228
1961223
1962222
1963267
1964262
1965292
1966297
1967260
1968324
1969390
1970413
1971396
1972351
1973356
1974389
1975400
1976424
1977938
1978827
1979721
1980761
1981809
1982741
1983723
1984869
1985869
1986851
1987979
19881,104
19891,081
19901,318
19911,355
19921,843
19931,926
19942,059
19952,193
19962,509
19972,621
19982,583
19992,477
20002,746
20012,827
20023,521
20033,718
20043,743
20053,681
20064,370
20075,293
20084,372
20094,118
20103,997
20113,731
20123,232
20133,152
20142,764
20152,453
20162,105
20171,843
20181,560
20191,520
20201,147
20211,093
20221,017
2023890
2024813
2025788

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 117 years between 1900–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Barbara Hepworth, b. 1903Jocelyn Brando, b. 1919Jocelyn Burdick, b. 1922Jocelyn Bell Burnell, b. 1943Jocelyn Pook, b. 1960Jocelyn Moorhouse, b. 1960Jocelyn Angloma, b. 1965Jocelyn Towne, b. 1976Jocelyn Quivrin, b. 1979Cara Delevingne, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 83 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Jocelyn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202098K#558
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202313K#2,603
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—994#558
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025788—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020777#558
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020718#34,057
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010658#34,427
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000512#40,265
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—484#2,565
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—373#5,600
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—326#2,852
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—271#4,615

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 976 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jocelyn?
We estimate roughly 99 thousand people bear Jocelyn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Jocelyn have the most bearers?
Jocelyn is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled jocelyn.
How common is Jocelyn compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Jocelyn is the 25th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Jocelyn a male or female name?
Jocelyn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jocelyn mean?
Recorded meaning: from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jocelyn” — the 25th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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