Jocelyne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jocelyne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 7.8K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jocelyne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #258 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 103K | Jocelyne | 306 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #565 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jocelyne | 9 |
| US United States | — | 4,916 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Jocelyne | 224 |
| CA Canada | #827 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 1 | Jocelyne | 143 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Jocelyne | 15 |
| BE Belgium | #412 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jocelyne | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Jocelyne | 46 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)
Jocelyne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Féminin de Jocelyn, nom germanique ou brittonique; sens incertain.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Origine germanique, de Gauz, nom d’une divinité.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Jocelyne LaGardeb. 1924FRFrench Polynesian actor (1924-1979)
- Jocelyne Françoisb. 1933FRFrench novelist
- Jocelyn Wildensteinb. 1945CHnot in their usual nameSwiss socialite (1940–2024)
- Jocelyne Saabb. 1948LBLebanese film director and journalist (1948–2019)
- Jocelyne Boisseaub. 1953FRFrench actress
- Jocelyne Roy-Vienneaub. 1956CACanadian lieutenant governor
- Jocelyne Loewenb. 1976CACanadian actress
- Jocelyne Larocqueb. 1988CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jocelyne Lamoureuxb. 1989USAmerican ice hockey player
- Maéva Clemaronb. 1992FRnot in their usual nameFrench soccer player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 103K | #2,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,966 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #3,966 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Jocelyne mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jocelyne a male or female name?
- Jocelyne 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 Jocelyne?
- In the etymology graph, Joselyn, Yoselin and Joslyn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jocelyne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Jocelyne in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jocelyne.
- How common is the name Jocelyne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,916 people named Jocelyne in 2020, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Jocelyne compared with other names?
- In France, Jocelyne is the 258th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jocelyneThe 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, “Jocelyne” — the 258th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.