Jocelyn n'est pas dans la Bible : un prénom médiéval et la joie des Écritures

Is Jocelyn in the Bible? No. The name Jocelyn does not appear in the Bible. It is medieval European, not ancient Hebrew or Greek, and it entered English through the Norman French centuries after the last books of Scripture were written. Jocelyn comes from the Germanic name Gautselin, built from the tribal word Gaut (meaning “Goth” or “Gaul”) and the suffix -lin (“descendant”). The name traveled from the Germanic lands into Old French as Joscelin, then into English as Jocelyn.…