Jocelyn?

[CosmicMouse]

Heard this name yesterday and can't get it out of my head...!

Anyone got any thoughts?

Hmm, I'm not too keen I'm afraid. It's too much like jostling.

Love Josephine though...

It's a unisex name, would it be for a girl or a boy? I prefer it as a girl's name I think, but I'm always a bit meh about unisex names.

I'm not keen - it's quite a pretty name in itself but it reminds me of Joss Stone, which isn't great.

Oh I'd only ever thought of it as a girls name. You learn something new...

It's only a pipedream at the mo, DC2 is still a work in progress

ghastly

Jostling.

I love it - I thought about it a lot for DD ( who ended up being Celia).

I think Jocelyn is a lovely name. I know one who gets nicknamed Jossie.

Jocelyn is unisex? Really? I would have said it was a safely a womans name as Sandra, Karen and Barbara. I also think of it as belonging to the same era.

as safely

I love it. I've known a boy (nn Joss) and a girl (nn Jo), though both nicknames work for both sexes I think. Perhaps helped by the fact that both were lovely kids! I'd use it for a girl-prob not for a boy myself but I don't think it's odd to do so.

I dated a family friend (male) called Jocelyn for a bit , we always called him Jos

I know 3 people called Jocelyn, all men over 65. The actor Joss Ackland's middle name is Jocelyn. All the ones know get it shortened to Joss, I like it