girls:
111.4k births since 1900
#339 (94th percentile)
boys:
352 births since 1975
#4234 (8th percentile)
overall:
111.8k births since 1900
#628 (92nd percentile)
The name Jocelyn is the #628 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 111,783 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 91.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #339 (94.1% percentile) for all time with 111,431 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,234 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 352 births since 1975.
Jocelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Jocelyn is available in 115 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (115 years for girls and 36 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jocelyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jocelyn reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 95.0% percentile (ranked #50) with 2,501 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2,501 births per million (ranked 95.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jocelyn ranks #326 for girls (65.6% percentile) with 506 births per million, which is 20.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jocelyn reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #752) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jocelyn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Jocelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.1% confident that Jocelyn is pronounced as JAH-slihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAH-suh-lihn, at 24.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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