Meaning not yet researched.
Jocelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 788 in 2025. Its best rank was #50 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #50 in 2007; #393 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jocelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#393 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #50.
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Jocelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 788 girls in 2025. Peak: #50 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 5,293 (2007).
In 2025, 788 US girls were named Jocelyn, making it the 393rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #389 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 813 girls named Jocelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #50, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,293. For comparison, it was #133 in 2015 and #739 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jocelyn in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 113,412 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 38,484 babies named Jocelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,776 US girls were named Jocelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,040 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jocelyn ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #178 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jocelyne (4,228 babies since 1880), Joseline (3,798 babies since 1880), Jocelin (2,612 babies since 1880) and Joscelyn (2,123 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Josselin, Jocelynne and Joycelynn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jo and Joss.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Josselin (859), Jocelynne (619), Joycelynn (588), Jocilyn (383), Jozelyn (363), Joscelin (243), Jozalyn (167), Joscelynn (164), Joycelin (152), Joscelyne (117), Jozelynn (107), Jocilynn (78), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 6 | #178 | #244 |
| Nevada | 14 | #186 | #79 |
| California | 135 | #244 | #82 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #247 | #160 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #255 | #121 |
| Arizona | 26 | #275 | #147 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #281 | #413 |
| Texas | 117 | #297 | #82 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #340 | #123 |
| Washington | 20 | #360 | #131 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #361 | #117 |
| Indiana | 19 | #367 | #135 |
| Kansas | 9 | #381 | #81 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #386 | #139 |
| Utah | 11 | #398 | #93 |
| Illinois | 26 | #412 | #135 |
| Ohio | 27 | #421 | #133 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #427 | #145 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #433 | #123 |
| Colorado | 13 | #441 | #179 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #441 | #157 |
| Virginia | 18 | #446 | #166 |
| Oregon | 8 | #454 | #101 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #465 | #182 |
| Florida | 38 | #484 | #174 |
| New York | 35 | #488 | #189 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #505 | #126 |
| Iowa | 6 | #529 | #166 |
| Georgia | 20 | #552 | #165 |
| Missouri | 10 | #573 | #194 |
| Maryland | 9 | #573 | #139 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #644 | #137 |
| Alabama | 7 | #672 | #320 |
| Michigan | 11 | #705 | #172 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #829 | #558 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #835 | #204 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #982 | #161 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 788 | #393 | — | — |
| 2024 | 813 | #389 | — | — |
| 2023 | 890 | #346 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,017 | #315 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,093 | #293 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,147 | #269 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,520 | #200 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,560 | #196 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,843 | #163 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,105 | #147 | 6 | #11,370 |
| 2015 | 2,453 | #133 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,764 | #115 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,152 | #99 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,232 | #93 | 5 | #13,159 |
| 2011 | 3,731 | #71 | — | — |
| 2010 | 3,997 | #65 | — | — |
| 2009 | 4,118 | #71 | 10 | #7,980 |
| 2008 | 4,372 | #67 | 8 | #9,398 |
| 2007 | 5,293 | #50 | 11 | #7,329 |
| 2006 | 4,370 | #73 | 6 | #11,287 |
| 2005 | 3,681 | #87 | 16 | #5,150 |
| 2004 | 3,743 | #85 | 16 | #5,117 |
| 2003 | 3,718 | #87 | 6 | #10,181 |
| 2002 | 3,521 | #92 | 6 | #9,984 |
| 2001 | 2,827 | #123 | 6 | #9,857 |
| 2000 | 2,746 | #122 | 10 | #6,557 |
| 1999 | 2,477 | #132 | 12 | #5,478 |
| 1998 | 2,583 | #128 | 12 | #5,291 |
| 1997 | 2,621 | #122 | 10 | #5,851 |
| 1996 | 2,509 | #127 | 9 | #6,227 |
| 1995 | 2,193 | #148 | 13 | #4,648 |
| 1994 | 2,059 | #157 | 11 | #5,262 |
| 1993 | 1,926 | #162 | 22 | #3,091 |
| 1992 | 1,843 | #164 | 16 | #3,833 |
| 1991 | 1,355 | #215 | 10 | #5,280 |
| 1990 | 1,318 | #217 | 8 | #6,103 |
| 1989 | 1,081 | #247 | 16 | #3,528 |
| 1988 | 1,104 | #238 | 15 | #3,434 |
| 1987 | 979 | #260 | 7 | #5,763 |
| 1986 | 851 | #292 | 7 | #5,616 |
| 1985 | 869 | #287 | 10 | #4,196 |
| 1984 | 869 | #277 | 6 | #5,941 |
| 1983 | 723 | #321 | 6 | #5,842 |
| 1982 | 741 | #327 | 11 | #3,806 |
| 1981 | 809 | #299 | 7 | #5,186 |
| 1980 | 761 | #318 | 5 | #6,717 |
| 1979 | 721 | #324 | 13 | #3,254 |
| 1978 | 827 | #279 | 7 | #4,776 |
| 1977 | 938 | #267 | 7 | #4,840 |
| 1976 | 424 | #455 | — | — |
| 1975 | 400 | #468 | 5 | #5,868 |
| 1974 | 389 | #462 | — | — |
| 1973 | 356 | #493 | — | — |
| 1972 | 351 | #501 | — | — |
| 1971 | 396 | #486 | — | — |
| 1970 | 413 | #484 | — | — |
| 1969 | 390 | #493 | — | — |
| 1968 | 324 | #530 | — | — |
| 1967 | 260 | #593 | — | — |
| 1966 | 297 | #550 | — | — |
| 1965 | 292 | #557 | — | — |
| 1964 | 262 | #625 | — | — |
| 1963 | 267 | #618 | — | — |
| 1962 | 222 | #692 | — | — |
| 1961 | 223 | #703 | — | — |
| 1960 | 228 | #674 | — | — |
| 1959 | 241 | #642 | — | — |
| 1958 | 306 | #559 | — | — |
| 1957 | 353 | #507 | — | — |
| 1956 | 404 | #459 | — | — |
| 1955 | 383 | #463 | — | — |
| 1954 | 304 | #508 | — | — |
| 1953 | 308 | #497 | — | — |
| 1952 | 255 | #535 | — | — |
| 1951 | 276 | #493 | — | — |
| 1950 | 136 | #739 | — | — |
| 1949 | 97 | #900 | — | — |
| 1948 | 79 | #980 | — | — |
| 1947 | 72 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1945 | 72 | #890 | — | — |
| 1944 | 47 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1943 | 73 | #910 | — | — |
| 1942 | 62 | #994 | — | — |
| 1941 | 60 | #951 | — | — |
| 1940 | 56 | #961 | — | — |
| 1939 | 73 | #805 | — | — |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1937 | 50 | #996 | — | — |
| 1936 | 72 | #798 | — | — |
| 1935 | 51 | #968 | — | — |
| 1934 | 75 | #777 | — | — |
| 1933 | 63 | #846 | — | — |
| 1932 | 62 | #893 | — | — |
| 1931 | 85 | #730 | — | — |
| 1930 | 67 | #887 | — | — |
| 1929 | 80 | #783 | — | — |
| 1928 | 64 | #931 | — | — |
| 1927 | 63 | #957 | — | — |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,829 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).