Joclyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Joclyn by the numbers

Joclyn was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 31 babies in 2010, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Joclyn

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Joclyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jocelyncheerful or joyful; from Jocundus1,828 in the US (2017)
  • Joslynjoyful; a form of Jocelyn284 in the US (2017)
  • Jaclynsupplanter; a feminine form of Jacob149 in the US (2017)
  • Jocilyncheerful; a modern respelling of Jocelyn9 in the US (2017)
  • Jozlyn26 in the US (2017)
  • Joclynn11 in the US (2017)

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