Jocelyne

Where Jocelyne comes from

Jocelyne hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    Jocelyne LaGarde born
    French Polynesian actor
  2. 1945
    First appearance
    #4,025 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1948
    Jocelyne Saab born
    Lebanese film director and journalist
  4. 1996
    Peak, #513
    461 babies named Jocelyne — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,104.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jocelyne LaGarde · French Polynesian actor, 1924–1979
  • Jocelyne Saab · Lebanese film director and journalist, 1948–2019
  • Jocelyne Larocque · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1988
  • Jocelyne Lamoureux · American ice hockey player, born 1989
  • Jocelyne Villeton · French athlete, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.