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Jozette vs Jozie

American parents have registered 1,343 Jozies since 1880, against 513 Jozettes. Jozie is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jozette against Jozie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jozette Jozie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Jozie for 33 years and Jozette for 29 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jozette Jozie
Total US births 5131,343
Most in one year 2963
Babies in 2025 under 550
Estimated living today 4901,300
Median age today 4112
Peak year 19702022
Best rank 2,522nd girls2,720th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,167th
First recorded 19611990
Girls / boys 513 / 01,343 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jozettes alive today are over 41; half the Jozies are over 12. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jozette and Jozie.