Josie

Where Josie comes from

The dictionaries list Josie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Josephine — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #116 among girls — 141 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1978
    Josie Maran born
    American model, actress, and entrepreneur
  3. 1987
    Josie Loren born
    American actress
  4. 2025
    Peak, #82
    3,021 babies named Josie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #82 after sinking to #855 in 1967.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Namesakes
  • Josie Maran · American model, actress, and entrepreneur, born 1978
  • Josie Loren · American actress, born 1987
  • Josie Bissett · American actress, born 1970
  • Josie Knight · Irish now UK cyclist, born 1997
  • Josie Totah · American actress, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.