Jocelyn

Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocelin, Joceline, Jocelyne, Jocelynn, Jocelynne, Joscelin, Josceline, Joscelyn, Joscelynn, Joscelynne, Joseline, Joselyn, Joselyne, Joslin, Joslyn, Josselin, Joslynn, Josselyn, Josslyn, Joycelyn, and Juscelino. The name may derive from Josselin, a locality in Brittany, France, and have been introduced to England after the Norman Conquest. It derives from the Germanic name Gauzlin.

In French, the spelling "Jocelyn" is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne".

Given name edit

Goscelin edit

Goscelin, 11th century hagiographer, also known as Jocelyn

Jocelyn edit

Joss Ackland, British actor whose birth name is Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland
Jocelyn Angloma, French-Guadeloupean football player
Jocelyn Barrow, British educator, community activist and politician
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, UK astronomer
Jocelyn Bioh, Ghanaian-American writer and actor
Jocelyn Bolante, Filipino politician
Jocelyn Brooke, British author
Jocelyn Brown, American singer
Jocelyn Burdick, American politician
Jocelyn de Brakelond, 12th century chronicler
Jocelyn Chia, American comedian
Jocelyn Enriquez, American singer
Jocelyn Gill, American astronomer
Jocelyn Godefroi, British translator
Jocelyn Jee Esien, British comedian
Jocelyn Leary, American cast member on the American sketch comedy Don't Look Now (1983 TV series)
Jocelyn Lovell, Canadian cyclist
Jocelyn McCallum, Australian softball player
Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australian film director
Jocelyn Nuttall, New Zealand professor of education
Jocelyn Pook, English violist
Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian hockey player
Jocelyn Wildenstein, Swiss-American socialite known for having a cat-like appearance due to extensive cosmetic surgery

Joscelin edit

Joscelin, Bishop of Paris, 9th century French cleric
Joscelin I, Count of Edessa (died 1131), Crusader lord
Joscelin II, Count of Edessa (died 1159), Crusader lord
Joscelin III of Edessa (1159 – after 1190), Crusader lord
Joscelin of Louvain, Brabantian/English nobleman

Josceline edit

Josceline de Bohon, Bishop of Salisbury
Josceline Percy, officer in the British Royal Navy
Josceline Percy, English politician
Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, English nobleman
Josceline Dimbleby, British cookery writer

Joscelyn edit

Joscelyn Godwin, British composer, musicologist, and translator
Joscelyn Roberson, American artistic gymnast
Joss Stone, British singer whose birth name is Joscelyn Eve Stoker

Jocelin edit

Jocelin (d. 1199), abbot of Melrose, and Bishop of Glasgow
Jocelin of Soissons (d. 1152)
Jocelin of Wells, a 13th-century bishop of Bath and Wells
Jocelin de Dijon (fl. 1200–25), trouvère

Jocelyne edit

Jocelyne Betty Okagua Apiafi, Nigerian politician
Jocelyne Lanois, French-Canadian singer
Jocelyne Villeton, French long-distance runner

Joycelyn edit

Joycelyn Elders, American Public Health Administrator

Joselyn edit

Joselyn Cano, American Model
Joselyn Dumas, Ghanaian television host
Joselyn Alejandra Niño, Mexican criminal

Joseline edit

Joseline Hernandez, Puerto Rican reality television personality, rapper and actress

Juscelino edit

Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian President
Juscelino Filho, Brazilian federal deputy and cabinet minister

Surname edit

Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, British photographer
Harry Jocelyn (1933–2000), Australian Latinist and classical scholar
John Joscelyn, an English antiquarian
Nathaniel Jocelyn, American painter
For the Jocelyns of Hyde Hall near Sawbridgeworth, see the Earl of Roden