Jocelyn

Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Joscelyn, Joscelin, Josceline, Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynne, Jocelynn, Joslin, Joslyn, Joclyn, Joselyn, Joselyne and Josslyn; people that have this name may find it is often misspelled by others. The name may derive from Josselin in Brittany, France and was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest. It may also derive from the Germanic name Gauzlin, also spelled Goslin.

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

Given name

Jocelyn

• Jocelyn Angloma, French-Guadeloupean soccer 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 Jee Esien, British comedian
• Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australian film director
• Jocelyn Pook, English violist
• Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian hockey player
• Joss Stone, whose birth name is Jocelyn Eve Stoker

Joscelin

• Joscelin, Bishop of Paris, 9th century French cleric
• Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin II, Count of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin III of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin of Louvain, Brabantian/English nobleman

Josceline

• Josceline Percy, officer in the British Royal Navy
• Josceline Percy, English politician

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

Joceline

• Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, English nobleman

Jocelyne

• Jocelyne Lanois, French-Canadian singer
• Jocelyne Villeton, French long-distance runner

Surname

• John Joscelyn, an English antiquarian
• For the Jocelyns of Hyde Hall near Sawbridgeworth, see the Earl of Roden

Opera

• Jocelyn composed by Benjamin Godard

See also

• Joslin