Jocelyne
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jocelyne is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In French Guiana it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century.
- MQMartinique1 in 384◐
- GPGuadeloupe1 in 423
- FRFrance1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.3K ●
- Sources
- 297 ●
- 1 in 68K ◐
across 8 countries
177K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #232 | 502,939 | 151K rec. | — | 103K | Jocelyne | 297 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,955 | 5.3K rec. | — | 1 | Jocelyne | 110 |
| US United States | — | 4,907 | 8.8K rec. | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Jocelyne | 204 |
| BE Belgium | #432 | 4,336 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Jocelyne | 49 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,857 | 1.9K rec. | — | 1 | Jocelyne | 82 |
| CL Chile | — | 1,816 | 142 rec. | — | 1 | Jocelyne | 38 |
| MQ Martinique | #48 | 1,687 | 11 rec. | — | 5 | Jocelyne | 8 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #62 | 1,466 | 5 rec. | — | 5 | Jocelyne | 5 |
| PE Peru | — | 696 | 554 rec. | — | — | Jocelyne | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 416 | 300 rec. | — | 2 | Jocelyne | 23 |
| GF French Guiana | #7 | 410 | 4 rec. | — | 5 | Jocelyne | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 402 | 354 rec. | — | — | Jocelyne | 46 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French524K92%
- English24K4%
- Spanish9.4K2%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)2.4K1%
- 1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 524,483 | 92% |
| English | 23,955 | 4% |
| Spanish | 9,422 | 2% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 2,384 | 1% |
| 1,593 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jocelyne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin de Jocelyn, nom germanique ou brittonique; sens incertain.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Origine germanique, de Gauz, nom d’une divinité.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1947 | 10 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 9 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 9 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 13 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 37 |
| 1987 | 40 |
| 1988 | 18 |
| 1989 | 26 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 30 |
| 1992 | 42 |
| 1993 | 69 |
| 1994 | 105 |
| 1995 | 351 |
| 1996 | 461 |
| 1997 | 386 |
| 1998 | 239 |
| 1999 | 240 |
| 2000 | 185 |
| 2001 | 103 |
| 2002 | 112 |
| 2003 | 93 |
| 2004 | 96 |
| 2005 | 125 |
| 2006 | 132 |
| 2007 | 166 |
| 2008 | 116 |
| 2009 | 98 |
| 2010 | 100 |
| 2011 | 77 |
| 2012 | 70 |
| 2013 | 73 |
| 2014 | 60 |
| 2015 | 44 |
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2017 | 39 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 74 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jocelyne LaGardeb. 1924FRFrench Polynesian actor (1924-1979)
- Jocelyne Françoisb. 1933FRFrench novelist
- Jocelyn Wildensteinb. 1945CHnot in their usual nameSwiss socialite (1940–2024)
- Jocelyne Saabb. 1948LBLebanese film director and journalist (1948–2019)
- Jocelyne Boisseaub. 1953FRFrench actress
- Jocelyne Roy-Vienneaub. 1956CACanadian lieutenant governor
- Jocelyne Loewenb. 1976CACanadian actress
- Jocelyne Larocqueb. 1988CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jocelyne Lamoureuxb. 1989USAmerican ice hockey player
- Maéva Clemaronb. 1992FRnot in their usual nameFrench soccer player
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 58 sources across 37 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 492 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jocelyne?
- We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Jocelyne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jocelyne have the most bearers?
- Jocelyne is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled jocelyne.
- How common is Jocelyne compared with other names?
- In France, Jocelyne is the 232nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Jocelyne a male or female name?
- Jocelyne 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 Jocelyne mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jocelyne” — the 232nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.