Jossie
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 9 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,034since 1880
Jossie over time
Rank among girls' names. Jossie has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | — | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | — | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,045 | 23 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,060 | 17 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,040 | 10 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,109 | 15 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,544 | 24 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,113 | 15 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,784 | 19 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,741 | 19 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,720 | 20 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,344 | 29 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,552 | 23 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,488 | 26 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,421 | 27 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,607 | 24 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,212 | 38 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,425 | 30 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,523 | 29 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,133 | 45 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,296 | 37 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,872 | 22 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,556 | 28 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,252 | 39 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,437 | 32 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,152 | 43 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,194 | 39 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,451 | 29 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,261 | 33 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,147 | 38 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,523 | 23 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,080 | 31 | — | |
| 1913 | #981 | 30 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,218 | 19 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,031 | 18 | — | |
| 1910 | #845 | 26 | — | |
| 1909 | #909 | 20 | — | |
| 1908 | #970 | 17 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1906 | #845 | 19 | — | |
| 1905 | #797 | 21 | — | |
| 1904 | #910 | 16 | — | |
| 1903 | #896 | 15 | — | |
| 1902 | #716 | 23 | — | |
| 1901 | #829 | 16 | — | |
| 1900 | #970 | 15 | — | |
| 1899 | #983 | 11 | — | |
| 1898 | #790 | 18 | — | |
| 1897 | #931 | 12 | — | |
| 1896 | #903 | 13 | — | |
| 1895 | #893 | 13 | — | |
| 1894 | #812 | 14 | — | |
| 1893 | #901 | 11 | — | |
| 1892 | #726 | 16 | — | |
| 1891 | #893 | 10 | — | |
| 1890 | #667 | 16 | — | |
| 1889 | #724 | 13 | — | |
| 1888 | #894 | 9 | — | |
| 1887 | #1,036 | 6 | — | |
| 1886 | #731 | 10 | — | |
| 1885 | #745 | 9 | — | |
| 1884 | #851 | 7 | — | |
| 1883 | #651 | 9 | — | |
| 1882 | #813 | 6 | — | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | #679 | 7 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Jossie was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jossie is popular in 1892
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Jossie
- 202 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1913 (#1,218 → #981)
- Biggest drop: 305 spots in 1887 (#731 → #1,036)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #651 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 76 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1888–1906
- Highest: 1 in 11,481 girls born in 1902 were named Jossie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #651 in 1883, was only 1 in 12,480 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 16.9% of all girls named Jossie (343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 76 | #651 (1883) | #792 |
| 1890s | 134 | #667 (1890) | #850 |
| 1900s | 175 | #716 (1902) | #893 |
| 1910s | 286 | #845 (1910) | #1,173 |
| 1920s | 343 | #1,133 (1926) | #1,386 |
| 1930s | 226 | #1,344 (1934) | #1,631 |
| 1940s | 158 | #2,018 (1941) | #2,382 |
| 1950s | 84 | #2,781 (1950) | #4,226 |
| 1960s | 35 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,083 |
| 1970s | 27 | #7,680 (1974) | #8,526 |
| 1980s | 90 | #5,254 (1981) | #6,712 |
| 1990s | 151 | #4,524 (1993) | #6,271 |
| 2000s | 126 | #5,795 (2003) | #8,922 |
| 2010s | 81 | #8,271 (2010) | #12,224 |
| 2020s | 42 | #6,229 (2022) | #10,225 |
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.
Jossie in 1892
Top girls' names in 1892
More about 1892
girls
212,339 girls got a published name in 1892; 1 in 13,271 of them was named Jossie, which outranked 56.3% of the 1,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).