Josey
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 76.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 88 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,231since 1915
Josey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #2,193 | 86 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #2,155 | 86 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #2,159 | 87 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #2,087 | 93 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #2,385 | 78 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 97 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #2,014 | 93 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #1,985 | 91 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #2,081 | 82 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #1,791 | 97 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #1,884 | 78 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #2,125 | 64 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,381 | 54 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #1,706 | 41 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Josey! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1919, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Josey
- 475 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #2,778)
- 622 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #2,778)
- 370 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1998 at #1,774 (88 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,614 girls born in 2012 were named Josey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,774 in 1998, was only 1 in 20,079 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all girls named Josey (905) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1989, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 12 | #4,306 (1926) | #4,352 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 23 | #4,124 (1942) | #4,470 |
| 1950s | 26 | #4,520 (1958) | #5,170 |
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 73 | #4,679 (1978) | #6,217 |
| 1980s | 225 | #2,781 (1984) | #3,899 |
| 1990s | 594 | #1,774 (1998) | #2,335 |
| 2000s | 882 | #1,791 (2000) | #2,100 |
| 2010s | 905 | #1,886 (2012) | #2,131 |
| 2020s | 474 | #2,119 (2021) | #2,327 |
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.
Josey in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 18,135 of them was named Josey, which outranked 89.7% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,000Presleigh98
- #2,000Starr98
- #2,000Tanvi98
- #2,017Josey97
- #2,017Abbigale97
- #2,017Abriana97
- #2,017Agnes97
- #2,026Akshara96
- #2,026Alessa96
- #2,026Alonna96
Tied with 8 names at #2,017; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 316,542 of them was named Josey, which outranked 24.7% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,600Zyien7
- #9,600Zykeem7
- #9,600Zyreon7
- #10,808Josey6
- #10,808Aadhav6
- #10,808Aadish6
- #10,808Aanav6
- #12,287Aadesh5
- #12,287Aadhyan5
- #12,287Aarsh5
Tied with 1,478 names at #10,808; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.