Jocelin
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 180 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,612since 1966
Jocelin over time
Rank among girls' names. Jocelin has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #2,220 | 87 |
| 2009 | #1,956 | 106 |
| 2008 | #1,824 | 118 |
| 2007 | #1,351 | 180 |
| 2006 | #1,366 | 168 |
| 2005 | #1,741 | 113 |
| 2004 | #1,769 | 108 |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 |
| 2002 | #1,771 | 102 |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 |
| 1997 | #1,914 | 76 |
| 1996 | #1,641 | 93 |
| 1995 | #2,189 | 61 |
| 1994 | #2,059 | 67 |
| 1993 | #1,776 | 82 |
| 1992 | #1,798 | 80 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 |
| 1990 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jocelin! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jocelin is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#883 · 1 in 5,869
- Illinois#901 · 1 in 5,679
- New Jersey#996 · 1 in 6,784
- Texas#1,020 · 1 in 6,391
- Arizona#1,070 · 1 in 6,381
Best ever in a state: #451 in Nevada, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #883 | 40 | 1 in 5,869 |
| Illinois | #901 | 12 | 1 in 5,679 |
| New Jersey | #996 | 6 | 1 in 6,784 |
| Texas | #1,020 | 26 | 1 in 6,391 |
| Arizona | #1,070 | 6 | 1 in 6,381 |
| Georgia | #1,109 | 8 | 1 in 6,729 |
| North Carolina | #1,173 | 6 | 1 in 7,849 |
| Florida | #1,468 | 8 | 1 in 11,140 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jocelin
- 2,560 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #10,917)
- 667 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #10,917)
- 5,459 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2007 at #1,351 (180 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,681 girls born in 2007 were named Jocelin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.2% of all girls named Jocelin (1,208) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,946 |
| 1970s | 82 | #4,459 (1978) | #6,227 |
| 1980s | 138 | #3,566 (1989) | #5,239 |
| 1990s | 672 | #1,641 (1996) | #2,196 |
| 2000s | 1,208 | #1,351 (2007) | #1,700 |
| 2010s | 450 | #1,982 (2011) | #4,480 |
| 2020s | 47 | #10,250 (2020) | #11,365 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jocelin in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 11,317 of them was named Jocelin, which outranked 93.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,359Lilyanna170
- #1,359Samaya170
- #1,365Aidan169
- #1,366Jocelin168
- #1,366Alyssia168
- #1,366Briseida168
- #1,366Caitlynn168
- #1,371Elisha167
- #1,371Kiya167
- #1,371Renata167
Tied with 4 names at #1,366; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.