Yoselyn

Where Yoselyn comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Yoselyn.

  • Germanic
Yoselyn through the years
  1. 1985
    First appearance
    #9,307 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,308
    186 babies named Yoselyn, the most in any year.
  3. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,568.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern variant of Jocelyn, by folk etymology interpreted as a feminine form of Jose/José.
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