Josette
#1,833 for girls in 2025, 109 births
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 504 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,659since 1916
Josette over time
Rank among girls' names. Josette has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,833 | 109 |
| 2024 | #2,218 | 85 |
| 2023 | #2,288 | 80 |
| 2022 | #2,068 | 93 |
| 2021 | #2,024 | 95 |
| 2020 | #2,376 | 74 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,168 | 54 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 |
| 2004 | #3,033 | 51 |
| 2003 | #2,413 | 68 |
| 2002 | #2,935 | 50 |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 |
| 1999 | #2,501 | 57 |
| 1998 | #2,461 | 56 |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 |
| 1995 | #2,516 | 50 |
| 1994 | #2,079 | 66 |
| 1993 | #2,451 | 51 |
| 1992 | #2,078 | 65 |
| 1991 | #1,383 | 116 |
| 1990 | #2,374 | 52 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 |
| 1984 | #1,788 | 60 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 |
| 1981 | #1,809 | 61 |
| 1980 | #1,766 | 62 |
| 1979 | #1,410 | 87 |
| 1978 | #1,374 | 85 |
| 1977 | #1,225 | 99 |
| 1976 | #1,191 | 95 |
| 1975 | #1,202 | 96 |
| 1974 | #1,003 | 120 |
| 1973 | #808 | 162 |
| 1972 | #780 | 175 |
| 1971 | #698 | 218 |
| 1970 | #588 | 298 |
| 1969 | #578 | 293 |
| 1968 | #416 | 504 |
| 1967 | #728 | 181 |
| 1966 | #1,621 | 48 |
| 1965 | #1,448 | 58 |
| 1964 | #1,747 | 44 |
| 1963 | #1,435 | 60 |
| 1962 | #1,444 | 59 |
| 1961 | #1,553 | 53 |
| 1960 | #1,447 | 58 |
| 1959 | #1,417 | 57 |
| 1958 | #1,260 | 71 |
| 1957 | #1,458 | 53 |
| 1956 | #1,339 | 60 |
| 1955 | #1,320 | 58 |
| 1954 | #1,256 | 62 |
| 1953 | #1,188 | 66 |
| 1952 | #1,333 | 52 |
| 1951 | #1,266 | 54 |
| 1950 | #1,411 | 42 |
| 1949 | #1,210 | 56 |
| 1948 | #1,209 | 56 |
| 1947 | #1,161 | 60 |
| 1946 | #1,376 | 40 |
| 1945 | #1,699 | 24 |
| 1944 | #1,455 | 31 |
| 1943 | #1,900 | 21 |
| 1942 | #1,076 | 53 |
| 1941 | #1,117 | 44 |
| 1940 | #1,965 | 17 |
| 1939 | #1,009 | 49 |
| 1938 | #1,079 | 44 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
| 1935 | — | |
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| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #2,581 | 11 |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Josette! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Josette is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#318 · 1 in 1,749
- Michigan#482 · 1 in 4,421
- Ohio#499 · 1 in 4,963
- New Jersey#577 · 1 in 5,092
- New York#649 · 1 in 6,158
Best ever in a state: #96 in Hawaii, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #318 | 9 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Michigan | #482 | 14 | 1 in 4,421 |
| Ohio | #499 | 15 | 1 in 4,963 |
| New Jersey | #577 | 8 | 1 in 5,092 |
| New York | #649 | 18 | 1 in 6,158 |
| Louisiana | #658 | 5 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Pennsylvania | #667 | 9 | 1 in 8,012 |
| California | #758 | 20 | 1 in 6,854 |
| Illinois | #841 | 8 | 1 in 9,325 |
| Texas | #874 | 11 | 1 in 8,761 |
| Florida | #889 | 5 | 1 in 8,896 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Josette
- 385 spots since 2024 (#2,218 → #1,833)
- 543 spots since 2020 (#2,376 → #1,833)
- 903 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #1,833)
- Biggest jump: 893 spots in 1967 (#1,621 → #728)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 1974 (#808 → #1,003)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1968 at #416 (504 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1967–1973
- Highest: 1 in 3,255 girls born in 1968 were named Josette (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,746 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 21.5% of all girls named Josette (1,435) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,552 (1916) | #4,204 |
| 1920s | 38 | #3,436 (1928) | #4,201 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,009 (1939) | #2,840 |
| 1940s | 402 | #1,076 (1942) | #1,417 |
| 1950s | 575 | #1,188 (1953) | #1,325 |
| 1960s | 1,358 | #416 (1968) | #1,242 |
| 1970s | 1,435 | #588 (1970) | #1,028 |
| 1980s | 532 | #1,735 (1982) | #2,086 |
| 1990s | 638 | #1,383 (1991) | #2,221 |
| 2000s | 501 | #2,213 (2000) | #3,332 |
| 2010s | 497 | #2,736 (2015) | #3,378 |
| 2020s | 536 | #1,833 (2025) | #2,135 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Josette in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 8,693 of them was named Josette, which outranked 91.9% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).