Jocelyn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɑsəʎɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jocelyn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 296(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.8K
- USUnited States1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 518 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
≈370,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jocelyn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #24 | ≈370,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | — | Jocelyn | 165 |
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jocelyn | 49 |
| US United States | #821 | 98,533 | 1 in 3.4K | 98K | Jocelyn | 518 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Jocelyn | 77 |
| MG Madagascar | #178 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Jocelyn | 22 |
| CA Canada | #536 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 8 | Jocelyn | 260 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jocelyn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The merry one; girl's name
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Joceline ['d33slin]: aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, variant spelling of JOSLIN.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Barbara Hepworthb. 1903GBnot in their usual nameEnglish sculptor (1903–1975)
- Jocelyn Brandob. 1919USAmerican actress (1919–2005)
- Jocelyn Burdickb. 1922USAmerican politician (1922–2019)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnellb. 1943GBBritish astrophysicist (born 1943)
- Jocelyn Pookb. 1960GBComposer, pianist
- Jocelyn Moorhouseb. 1960AUAustralian film director
- Jocelyn Anglomab. 1965FRFrench football player and manager (born 1965)
- Jocelyn Towneb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Jocelyn Quivrinb. 1979FRFrench actor (1979–2009)
- Cara Delevingneb. 1992GBnot in their usual nameEnglish model and actor (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98K | #558 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 788 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 777 | #558 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 39 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 8 | #536 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2001 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jocelyn a male or female name?
- Jocelyn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Jocelyn?
- In the etymology graph, Joyce is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jocelyn?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɑsəʎɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jocelyn mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Goscelin/Gosselin/Joscelin, a diminutive of Gos- or Goz- names or of OFr Josse; first attested Gozelinus, Gos(c)elinus 1086 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Jocelyn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 369 thousand people named Jocelyn in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jocelyn.
- How common is the name Jocelyn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 98,533 people named Jocelyn in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Jocelyn compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jocelyn is the 24th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jocelynThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jocelyn” — the 24th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.