Given name & surname
Joselyne
“from the tribe of Gauts”·“one who is cheerful, happy”
Joselyne is a variant of Jocelyn. Interpretations include “from the tribe of Gauts” and “one who is cheerful, happy”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Joselyne is a variant of Jocelyn. Interpretations include “from the tribe of Gauts” and “one who is cheerful, happy”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Joselyne through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,158
- 0 boys · 1,158 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 101 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,985 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −71%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,985 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 101 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,135 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.
Joselyne’s family of names
Joselyne 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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Joselyne
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.