Jocelin

Where Jocelin comes from

The dictionaries list Jocelin as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,351
    180 babies named Jocelin — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,220.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.