Jocell vs Jocelyne
American parents have registered 4,228 Jocelynes since 1880, against 31 Jocells. Jocelyne is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jocell Jocelyne
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
Jocelyne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2011, when Jocell had 31 and Jocelyne had 77.
Side by side
| Jocell | Jocelyne | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 31 | 4,228 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 461 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 11 |
| Estimated living today | 30 | 4,100 |
| Median age today | 14 | 26 |
| Peak year | 2011 | 1996 |
| Best rank | 4,568th girls | 513th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 8,860th |
| First recorded | 2011 | 1945 |
| Girls / boys | 31 / 0 | 4,228 / 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 Jocelynes alive today are over 26; half the Jocells are over 14. That is 12 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 Jocelyne.