Jocelyn

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jocelyn: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jocelyn: Recorded since 1954, its highest recorded position is #69, and it stood at #1,302 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
67times a registrar ranked it
71years from first to last
#69highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1031
1997	#820
1998	#1036
1999	#952
2000	#930
2001	#1520
2002	#861
2003	#933
2004	#840
2005	#494
2006	#556
2007	#683
2008	#767
2009	#771
2010	#840
2011	#766
2012	#1075
2013	#825
2014	#814
2015	#775
2016	#782
2017	#797
2018	#864
2019	#955
2020	#853
2021	#1069
2022	#1058
2023	#1410
2024	#1302

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 20 of the 47 years from 1970 to 2016.

In 2016: #782 among girls in England and Wales, #868 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1954–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #70 among girls in New Zealand in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1954–1960
Highest recorded position: #69 among girls in New Zealand, in 1955 (recorded 1954–1960).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1302 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jocelyn appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,082 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1954.

Jocelyn across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jocelyn's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#447 (1970)	#326 (1971)	#868 (2016)	20 of 47	81 (1970–2016)	7 (1971)
England and Wales · Girls	#1031 (1996)	#494 (2005)	#1302 (2024)	29 of 29	1,082 (1996–2024)	71 (2005)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1664 (1999)	#4789 (2022)	11 of 27	50 (1996–2022)	7 (1999)
New Zealand · Girls	#70 (1954)	#69 (1955)	#95 (1960)	7 of 7	557 (1954–1960)	93 (1955)

Jocelyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jocelyn in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	88	4 of 10	22
2000s	396	10 of 10	40
2010sbusiest	445	10 of 10	45
2020s	153	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 45 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 39, from 32 to 71.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jocelyn appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #69 in New Zealand in 1955.

Jocelyn's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1058	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#853	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#864	43	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#797	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#782	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#775	50	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1075	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#766	49	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#771	46	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#767	45	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#683	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#556	64	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#494	71	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#840	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#952	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1036	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1031	19	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	female	#95	73	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	female	#96	71	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	female	#84	82	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	female	#85	77	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	female	#81	73	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	female	#69	93	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	female	#70	88	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#597	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#415	5	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#428	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	6	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	7	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#447	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1954 and 2024, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #69, first reached in 1955.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 7 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 93 births, registered in New Zealand in 1955.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1970, and 42 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Agnieszka · #64, 47y
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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Carmen · #69, 70y
Larry · #69, 38y
Philippa · #69, 62y
Ricky · #68, 56y

Jocelyn was ranked #69 in New Zealand · Girls in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jocelyn and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jocelyn without appearing here.

Jocelyn moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #861 and #2301.
Kristy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #861 and #2301.
Tracy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #1520 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #861 and #2301.
Belinda Compare
In 2003 they stood at #933 and #909 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #840 and #1715.

Moved ahead of Jocelyn

Rune Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4023 and #4810 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2125.
Theodor Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2538 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #1828.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1664 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2254 and #848.
Willow Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3687 and #4432 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #4023 and #3079.

Moved the opposite way to Jocelyn

Alexandra Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 while Alexandra went from #307 to #91.
Alice Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 while Alice went from #115 to #34.
Amelia Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 while Amelia went from #447 to #5.
Amy Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 while Amy went from #326 to #45.

Moved the same way as Jocelyn

Alison Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 and Alison from #69 to #114.
Alma Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 and Alma from #230 to #515.
Amanda Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 and Amanda from #57 to #419.
Angela Compare
Between 1970 and 2016 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jocelyn went from #447 to #868 and Angela from #35 to #515.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #69 in New Zealand in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jocelyn

Jocelyn at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jocelyn across 4 official records

Jocelyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jocelyn appears in

Popularity data

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Jocelyn at a glance

Jocelyn across 4 official records

Jocelyn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jocelyn appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Jocelyn

Jocelyn and the names beside it

Jocelyn moved ahead of

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