Jocelyn · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Jocelyn.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1975

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 36 recorded years as a table

Jocelyn, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1975	3
1977	4
1978	4
1979	8
1980	3
1981	4
1982	6
1983	3
1984	3
1985	5
1986	4
1987	4
1988	8
1989	8
1990	4
1991	5
1992	8
1993	11
1994	6
1995	7
1996	5
1997	5
1998	6
1999	6
2000	5
2001	3
2002	3
2003	3
2004	8
2005	8
2006	3
2007	5
2008	4
2009	5
2012	3
2016	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Jocelyn isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Jocelyn

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2016: 6
Rank in 2016: #10,744
How rare: 1 in 316,289 boys
Since 1975: 351

Jocelyn was last recorded in 2016. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1993, at 11 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Jocelyn doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.