Jocelyn
Jocelyn is ranked 389th among girls in 2024 (808 births). Its best rank was 50th, in 2007.
- Rank in 2024
- #389down 43 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8080.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 20075,293 births
- Best rank
- #50in 2007
- Since 1900
- 112,257people given the name
The story in the numbers
112,257 girls have been named Jocelyn in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 5,293 births — 0.28% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 115 → 389).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jocelyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 142 | |
| 1920s | 472 | |
| 1930s | 642 | |
| 1940s | 688 | |
| 1950s | 2,966 | |
| 1960s | 2,765 | |
| 1970s | 5,215 | |
| 1980s | 8,787 | |
| 1990s | 20,882 | |
| 2000s | 38,387 | |
| 2010s | 26,354 | |
| 2020s | 4,951 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Jocelyn was the 50th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Jocelyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keeliepeak 2007
- Jaciepeak 2005
- Julieannapeak 2006
- Adriannapeak 2007
- Nadyapeak 2006
- Ayonnapeak 2008
- Jaceypeak 2006
- Joslinpeak 2010
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.