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Joceline vs Jocie

American parents have registered 1,576 Jocelines since 1880, against 690 Jocies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joceline against Jocie, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joceline Jocie

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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Jocie for 46 years and Joceline for 32 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Joceline Jocie
Total US births 1,576690
Most in one year 11721
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,600380
Median age today 2316
Peak year 19961921
Best rank 1,412th girls1,927th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19841892
Girls / boys 1,576 / 0690 / 0

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 Jocelines alive today are over 23; half the Jocies are over 16. 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: Joceline and Jocie.