Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynn, Jocelynne, Jocilyn, Joscelin, Josceline, Joscelyn, Joscelynne, Joseline, Joselyn, Joselyne, Joslin, Joslyn, Josselyn,Jostlyne, and Josslyn. The name may derive from Josselin, a locality in Brittany, France, and was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest. It may also derive from the Germanic name Gauzlin, also spelled Gozlin or Goslin. It is Latinized as Iudocus or Judocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh ("lord").
In French, the spelling "Jocelyn" is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne".
The Irish name Oisdealbh is sometimes erroneously attributed to a translation of Jocelyn, to Gaelicize Jocelyn de Angulo's given name. In fact, MacOisdealbhaigh is the Gaelic translation of his brother Hostilo (or Hostilio) de Angulo's given name. It is Hostilo's descendants who would bear the surname Mac Oisdealbhaigh (son of Oisdealbh or Hostilo). The surname would later be anglicized to Costello, Costelloe, and Costellow.
Given name
Jocelyn
- Joss Ackland, British actor whose birth name is Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland
- Jocelyn Angloma, French-Guadeloupean football player
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, UK astronomer
- Jocelyn Brown, American singer
- Goscelin, 11th century hagiographer, also known as Jocelyn
- Jocelyn de Brakelond, 12th century chronicler
- Jocelyn Enriquez, American singer
- Jocelyn Gill, American astronomer
- Jocelyn Godefroi, British translator
- Jocelyn Jee Esien, British comedian
- Jocelyn McCallum, Australian softball player
- Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australian film director
- Jocelyn Pook, English violist
- Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian hockey player
- Joss Stone, British singer whose birth name is Jocelyn Eve Stoker
- Jocelyn Flores, name of XXXTentacion's most famous song
Joscelin
- 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
- 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
Jocelin
- 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
- Jocelyne Betty Okagua Apiafi, Nigerian politician
- Jocelyne Lanois, French-Canadian singer
- Jocelyne Villeton, French long-distance runner
Joycelyn
- Joycelyn Elders, American Public Health Administrator
Josselyn
Surname
- John Joscelyn, an English antiquarian
- Nathaniel Jocelyn, American painter
- Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, British photographer
- For the Jocelyns of Hyde Hall near Sawbridgeworth, see the Earl of Roden
Places
- Jocelyn, Ontario, Canada
Opera
- Jocelyn composed by Benjamin Godard