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Jocelyn (male)

Diminutive(s):Joss (M)
Can be spelt:Jocelin (M)
Feminine form:Jocelyn (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP

Chambers Dictionary [2003]AMB
Notes:

English, introduced by the Normans where it referred to the Gauls [ONC], or posibly one of the Geats, a southern Swedish tribe [Chambers]. Originally male, now often female.
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