Given name & surname · also Germanic
Joselin
“a Geat, a Goth”
Joselin is a feminine given name from Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Joselin is a form of Jocelyn. Jocelyn probably goes back to a word meaning “a Geat, a Goth.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Joselin is a form of Jocelyn. Jocelyn probably comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Joselin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,204
- 0 boys · 4,204 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 387 babies
- 2025
- 22
- #5,630 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −39%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 22 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,630 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 38.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 387 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,942 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Joselin’s family of names
In English usage, Joselin has a related form in Jocelyn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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