Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynn, Jocelynne, Joscelin, Josceline, Joscelyn, Joscelynn, Joscelynne, Joseline, Joselyn, Joselyne, Joslin, Joslyn, Josselin, Josselyn, and Josslyn. The name may derive from
Josselin
Josselin (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.
History
St Meriadek is said to have founded a chapel there during the 4th century. Much later Josselin became a stronghold of the House of Rohan.
An ...
, a locality in Brittany, France, and have been 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
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
, the spelling "Jocelyn" is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne".
Given name
Jocelyn
* Goscelin, 11th century hagiographer, also known as Jocelyn
*
Joss Ackland
Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English retired actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Del ...
, British actor whose birth name is Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland
* Jocelyn Angloma, French-Guadeloupean football player
*
Jocelyn Brown
Jocelyn Lorette Brown (born November 25, 1950), sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw, is an American R&B and dance singer. Although she has only one ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart entry solely in her name, she has an extensive background in the musi ...
Jocelyn Gill
Jocelyn Gill (1916–April 26, 1984) was an American astronomer who worked for NASA.
Biography
Jocelyn R. Gill graduated from Wellesley College in 1938. She worked at Mount Holyoke College as a laboratory assistant and instructor of astronomy ...
, American astronomer
*
Jocelyn Godefroi
Jocelyn Godefroi (1880, Kensington – 30 March 1969) was a British translator.
Educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Oxford, he worked for the Lord Chamberlain's Office for over four decades. He translated several works of French ...
Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland
Josceline (or Joceline) Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, 5th Baron Percy (4 July 1644 – 31 May 1670), of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Petworth House, Sussex, was an English peer.
Origins
Percy was the eldest son of Algernon Percy, 1 ...
* Joscelyn Godwin, British composer, musicologist, and translator
*
Joss Stone
Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), known professionally as Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to prominence in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, ''The Soul Sessions'', which made the 2004 Merc ...
, British singer whose birth name is Joscelyn Eve Stoker
Jocelin
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Jocelin
Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynn, Jocelynne, Joscelin, Josceline, Joscelyn, Joscelynn, Joscelynne, Joseline, Joselyn, Joselyne, Joslin, Joslyn, Josselin, Josselyn, ...
(d. 1199), abbot of Melrose, and Bishop of Glasgow
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Jocelin of Soissons
Jocelin of Soissons (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the ''Codex Calixtinus''. He was teaching at the Pari ...
(d. 1152)
* Jocelin of Wells, a 13th-century bishop of Bath and Wells
*
Jocelin de Dijon Jocelin de Dijon (''fl.'' 1200–25) was an Old French trouvère, presumably from Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche ...
(
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1200–25), trouvère
Jocelyne
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Jocelyne Betty Okagua Apiafi
Betty Jocelyne Okagua - Apiafi (born 19 February 1962) is a Nigerian politician, economist, retired banker and educationist.
Apiafi was elected to the Nigerian Senate for Rivers West Senatorial District in 2019. She has also served as a House o ...
Jocelyne Villeton
Jocelyne Villeton (; born September 17, 1954) is a French retired long-distance runner who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships.
Jocelyne Villeton only occasionally practiced athletics in her teens in the 1970s. ...
Joselyn Cano
Joselyn Cano (March 14, 1990 – December 7, 2020) was an American model, fashion designer and Internet personality.
Career
Born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Lake Elsinore, Cano first started modelling at the age of 17 for local mag ...
, American Model
* Joselyn Dumas, Ghanaian television host
*
Joselyn Alejandra Niño
Joselyn Alejandra Niño (died on 13 April 2015), commonly referred to by her alias La Flaca (English: The Skinny One), was a Mexican suspected assassin of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico. She gained popularity on s ...
, Mexican criminal
Surname
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Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn
Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, VA (''née'' Cowper; 1820 – 26 March 1880) was a British courtier and amateur photographer. She was born as the youngest daughter of Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Co ...
, British photographer
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Harry Jocelyn
Henry David Jocelyn, FBA, FAHA (1933–2000), commonly known as Harry Jocelyn, was an Australian Latinist and classical scholar. He was the Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester from 1973 to 1996.
Early life and education
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(1933–2000), Australian Latinist and classical scholar
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John Joscelyn
John Joscelyn, also John Jocelyn or John Joscelin, (1529–1603) was an English clergyman and antiquarian as well as secretary to Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Joscelyn was involve ...
, an English antiquarian
* Nathaniel Jocelyn, American painter
*For the Jocelyns of Hyde Hall near
Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is east of Hertford and north of Epping. It is the northernmost part of the Greater London Built-up Area.
History
Prior to the Norman ...
Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynn, Jocelynne, Joscelin, Josceline, Joscelyn, Joscelynn, Joscelynne, Joseline, Joselyn, Joselyne, Joslin, Joslyn, Josselin, Josselyn, ...
'' composed by
Benjamin Godard
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 184910 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera ''Jocelyn''. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concer ...