Yoselyn

Where Yoselyn comes from

The dictionaries list Yoselyn as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern variant of Jocelyn, by folk etymology interpreted as a feminine form of Jose/José — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1985
    First appearance
    #9,307 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,308
    186 babies named Yoselyn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,568.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern variant of Jocelyn, by folk etymology interpreted as a feminine form of Jose/José.
Namesakes

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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.