Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
Origin: EnglishJosie is a given name that is often a diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Josie yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Josie has grown 125% in ten years and is at its all-time high of 2,893 births, rank 88. Like Millie, it is a diminutive that stopped being short for anything — Josephine's formal register is not required for Josie to work now. On the books since 1880, with 72,858 births accumulated, most of it recent. The enrichment file lists exactly one bearer, the model Josie Maran, born 1978, who has no plausible connection to the current rise. That thin association is the point: names in this cohort are moving on sound and shape rather than on anyone famous. Compare Millie, where a single actor explains most of the curve. Josie has climbed nearly as hard with nobody attached, which suggests the underlying pattern is doing the work.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 141 | #116 |
| 1881 | 149 | #116 |
| 1882 | 169 | #122 |
| 1883 | 148 | #133 |
| 1884 | 198 | #125 |
| 1885 | 211 | #123 |
| 1886 | 212 | #131 |
| 1887 | 192 | #136 |
| 1888 | 257 | #134 |
| 1889 | 207 | #153 |
| 1890 | 242 | #146 |
| 1891 | 218 | #155 |
| 1892 | 263 | #152 |
| 1893 | 233 | #164 |
| 1894 | 241 | #169 |
| 1895 | 234 | #175 |
| 1896 | 227 | #182 |
| 1897 | 209 | #189 |
| 1898 | 219 | #197 |
| 1899 | 243 | #178 |
| 1900 | 266 | #194 |
| 1901 | 205 | #199 |
| 1902 | 221 | #196 |
| 1903 | 210 | #201 |
| 1904 | 206 | #210 |
| 1905 | 217 | #208 |
| 1906 | 193 | #228 |
| 1907 | 191 | #248 |
| 1908 | 207 | #235 |
| 1909 | 202 | #250 |
| 1910 | 251 | #242 |
| 1911 | 193 | #280 |
| 1912 | 269 | #274 |
| 1913 | 257 | #297 |
| 1914 | 344 | #283 |
| 1915 | 379 | #299 |
| 1916 | 363 | #319 |
| 1917 | 403 | #306 |
| 1918 | 430 | #307 |
| 1919 | 481 | #290 |
| 1920 | 436 | #314 |
| 1921 | 420 | #321 |
| 1922 | 448 | #308 |
| 1923 | 413 | #318 |
| 1924 | 426 | #326 |
| 1925 | 409 | #331 |
| 1926 | 406 | #328 |
| 1927 | 409 | #333 |
| 1928 | 364 | #357 |
| 1929 | 364 | #339 |
| 1930 | 356 | #355 |
| 1931 | 338 | #348 |
| 1932 | 291 | #384 |
| 1933 | 334 | #340 |
| 1934 | 379 | #321 |
| 1935 | 376 | #326 |
| 1936 | 330 | #344 |
| 1937 | 353 | #331 |
| 1938 | 373 | #327 |
| 1939 | 334 | #354 |
| 1940 | 337 | #351 |
| 1941 | 345 | #360 |
| 1942 | 362 | #372 |
| 1943 | 331 | #404 |
| 1944 | 352 | #376 |
| 1945 | 335 | #385 |
| 1946 | 332 | #422 |
| 1947 | 360 | #429 |
| 1948 | 351 | #423 |
| 1949 | 269 | #492 |
| 1950 | 246 | #523 |
| 1951 | 233 | #555 |
| 1952 | 196 | #632 |
| 1953 | 203 | #624 |
| 1954 | 228 | #601 |
| 1955 | 222 | #623 |
| 1956 | 280 | #561 |
| 1957 | 276 | #581 |
| 1958 | 267 | #609 |
| 1959 | 276 | #598 |
| 1960 | 305 | #561 |
| 1961 | 253 | #640 |
| 1962 | 232 | #671 |
| 1963 | 222 | #674 |
| 1964 | 204 | #730 |
| 1965 | 180 | #747 |
| 1966 | 163 | #770 |
| 1967 | 140 | #855 |
| 1968 | 184 | #720 |
| 1969 | 177 | #759 |
| 1970 | 170 | #815 |
| 1971 | 227 | #680 |
| 1972 | 214 | #686 |
| 1973 | 192 | #732 |
| 1974 | 211 | #699 |
| 1975 | 196 | #739 |
| 1976 | 215 | #691 |
| 1977 | 232 | #676 |
| 1978 | 215 | #729 |
| 1979 | 251 | #682 |
| 1980 | 269 | #664 |
| 1981 | 261 | #669 |
| 1982 | 274 | #652 |
| 1983 | 298 | #595 |
| 1984 | 249 | #681 |
| 1985 | 220 | #769 |
| 1986 | 204 | #823 |
| 1987 | 202 | #851 |
| 1988 | 249 | #755 |
| 1989 | 320 | #644 |
| 1990 | 363 | #619 |
| 1991 | 350 | #638 |
| 1992 | 364 | #622 |
| 1993 | 401 | #589 |
| 1994 | 575 | #438 |
| 1995 | 725 | #362 |
| 1996 | 821 | #340 |
| 1997 | 752 | #367 |
| 1998 | 801 | #360 |
| 1999 | 889 | #340 |
| 2000 | 970 | #328 |
| 2001 | 1,101 | #282 |
| 2002 | 1,110 | #282 |
| 2003 | 1,018 | #305 |
| 2004 | 975 | #324 |
| 2005 | 1,017 | #317 |
| 2006 | 1,124 | #295 |
| 2007 | 1,129 | #299 |
| 2008 | 1,134 | #294 |
| 2009 | 1,056 | #310 |
| 2010 | 1,251 | #262 |
| 2011 | 1,245 | #256 |
| 2012 | 1,278 | #253 |
| 2013 | 1,222 | #266 |
| 2014 | 1,288 | #252 |
| 2015 | 1,293 | #250 |
| 2016 | 1,366 | #237 |
| 2017 | 1,535 | #200 |
| 2018 | 1,586 | #192 |
| 2019 | 1,855 | #155 |
| 2020 | 2,001 | #134 |
| 2021 | 2,165 | #130 |
| 2022 | 2,369 | #120 |
| 2023 | 2,513 | #108 |
| 2024 | 2,893 | #88 |
