Jocelyne
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 461 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,228since 1945
Jocelyne over time
Rank among girls' names. Jocelyne has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #3,739 | 40 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 |
| 2013 | #2,458 | 73 |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 |
| 2010 | #1,992 | 100 |
| 2009 | #2,076 | 98 |
| 2008 | #1,844 | 116 |
| 2007 | #1,424 | 166 |
| 2006 | #1,615 | 132 |
| 2005 | #1,615 | 125 |
| 2004 | #1,942 | 96 |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 |
| 2002 | #1,642 | 112 |
| 2001 | #1,739 | 103 |
| 2000 | #1,104 | 185 |
| 1999 | #889 | 240 |
| 1998 | #884 | 239 |
| 1997 | #593 | 386 |
| 1996 | #513 | 461 |
| 1995 | #622 | 351 |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 105 |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #3,909 | 26 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 |
| 1987 | #2,531 | 40 |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jocelyne! It came in at #4,025, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jocelyne is popular in 2007
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#674 · 1 in 3,759
- Utah#762 · 1 in 3,923
- California#862 · 1 in 5,494
- Arizona#891 · 1 in 4,746
- Georgia#968 · 1 in 5,422
Best ever in a state: #140 in Nevada, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #674 | 45 | 1 in 3,759 |
| Utah | #762 | 5 | 1 in 3,923 |
| California | #862 | 43 | 1 in 5,494 |
| Arizona | #891 | 8 | 1 in 4,746 |
| Georgia | #968 | 10 | 1 in 5,422 |
| Florida | #1,282 | 10 | 1 in 8,928 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jocelyne
- 1,411 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #8,860)
- 3,546 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #8,860)
- 5,327 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #8,860)
- Biggest jump: 873 spots in 1995 (#1,495 → #622)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 1998 (#593 → #884)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1996 at #513 (461 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1995–1999
- Highest: 1 in 3,803 girls born in 1996 were named Jocelyne (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.1% of all girls named Jocelyne (1,949) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 22 | #3,448 (1947) | #4,049 |
| 1950s | 71 | #3,955 (1953) | #4,400 |
| 1960s | 56 | #4,202 (1965) | #5,234 |
| 1970s | 77 | #4,311 (1971) | #6,611 |
| 1980s | 175 | #2,531 (1987) | #5,833 |
| 1990s | 1,949 | #513 (1996) | #1,729 |
| 2000s | 1,226 | #1,104 (2000) | #1,695 |
| 2010s | 571 | #1,992 (2010) | #3,193 |
| 2020s | 81 | #5,314 (2020) | #8,198 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jocelyne in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 11,582 of them was named Jocelyne, which outranked 93.1% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,419Mackenna167
- #1,419Madysen167
- #1,419Rosalinda167
- #1,424Jocelyne166
- #1,424Aida166
- #1,424Eunice166
- #1,424Harlie166
- #1,431Angely165
- #1,431Dariana165
- #1,431Jamia165
Tied with 6 names at #1,424; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.