Given name
Josseline
Josseline is a feminine given name. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In French usage, Josseline is a feminine form of JOSSELIN.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josseline through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 630
- 0 boys · 630 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 46 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,592 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,592 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 46 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,071 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.
Josseline’s family of names
In French usage, Josseline is a feminine form of JOSSELIN. In French usage, Josseline has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jocelyn. In French usage, Josseline has a related form in Jocelyne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Josseline
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.