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Jocell vs Jocelyn

American parents have registered 113,412 Jocelyns since 1880, against 31 Jocells. Jocelyn is still ahead, with 788 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jocell against Jocelyn, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jocell Jocelyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jocelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Jocell had 31 and Jocelyn had 3,731.

Side by side

  Jocell Jocelyn
Total US births 31113,412
Most in one year 315,304
Babies in 2025 under 5788
Estimated living today 30110,000
Median age today 1421
Peak year 20112007
Best rank 4,568th girls50th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked393rd
First recorded 20111900
Girls / boys 31 / 0113,061 / 351

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jocelyns alive today are over 21; half the Jocells are over 14. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jocell and Jocelyn.