Joceline as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Joceline

What is the meaning of the name Joceline ?

The baby name Joceline is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced English: /ˈdʒoʊsəlɪn/ (JOH-sə-lin),English (alternate): /ˈdʒoʊsəliːn/ (JOH-sə-leen),French: /ʒɔsəlɛn/ (zho-seh-LEN).

Joceline is French in Origin.

Joceline is a French-influenced form of Jocelyn, from Old French Joscelin/Josceline, a diminutive built on a Germanic stem Gaut-/Gauz-, probably referring to the Gauts/Geats (“Goths”), yielding the sense “little Goth” or “member of the Gauts.” Medieval records also blur it with Josse (from Breton Iudoc, “lord”), so some lines associate the name with “little Josse”/“little lord”; both strands coexisted in continental Latin as Jocelinus/Gauzlinus.

Carried to England by the Normans, Joceline appears widely as a masculine name in the 12th–13th centuries (e.g., Bishop Jocelin of Wells, the crusader Joscelin of Courtenay). After falling from use, it revived in the 19th–20th centuries and shifted strongly female in English, while remaining feminine in modern French as Joceline/Jocelyne. Common variants and spellings include Jocelyn, Josceline, Joseline, Jocelyne, Joslyn, Jocelin (m.), and Josselin (m., also a Breton place-name).