Yosselyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four 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

Yosselyn by the numbers

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

Its American peak was 26 babies in 2007, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Yosselyn

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 Yosselyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Yoselyncheerful or joyful; a variant of Jocelyn41 in the US (2017)
  • Yosselin14 in the US (2017)
  • Yoselinjoyful; a form of Jocelyn127 in the US (2017)
  • Yocelyncheerful; variant of Jocelyn15 in the US (2017)
  • Yoseline10 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Yosselyn

Names that are said the same way as Yosselyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Yocelinjoyful; a form of Jocelyn19 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Yosselyn

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