Jocelyn

• as a modern female name: Joselin, Joselyn, Joslyn, Yoselin, Yoselyn

Middle English male given name from Old French Joscelin, German Gautzelin, diminutive of names beginning with the tribal name Gaut "a Geat, a Goth", the root form of which probably comes from Proto-Germanic *Gautalinþiz; also used as a diminutive form of the Breton name Josse ( =Joyce). It survived as a surname and was revived as a given name in the nineteenth century.

• Jocelyn is currently popular among U.S. Hispanics, and in the Philippines, by folk etymology explained as a feminine diminutive form of José (Joseph).

Jocelyn

1. (dated) A male given name.
2. A patronymic surname​.
3. A female given name.
   • 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 34:

     I drove Dorothy immediately to King George V Hospital and two hours later she delivered a beautiful baby daughter. We named her Jocelyn.

• Gaute, Göte

• Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001

• Hyphenation: jo‧ce‧lyn

Jocelyn

1. a female given name

• Josselin

• IPA^(key): /ʒo.se.lɛ̃/

Jocelyn

1. A male given name, cognate to English Jocelyn.

•  : Jocelyne