Josie
Josie is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 82nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 82nd. About 57,000 Josies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Josie boys named Josie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 75,915
- Estimated living today
- 57,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 82nd
- Rank in 2025
- 82nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 75,370 / 545
How old the living Josies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 75,915 babies given the name since 1880, about 57,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 31,000 of them are children and 5,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Josies
- Josie Maran (born 1978)American model, actress, and entrepreneur
- Josie Loren (born 1987)American actress
- Josie Bissett (born 1970)American actress
- Josie Knight (born 1997)Irish now UK cyclist
- Josie Baff (born 2003)Australian snowboarder
- Josie Totah (born 2001)American actress
- Josie Davis (born 1973)American actress, writer, and producer
- Josie Ho (born 1974)Hong Kong singer
People named Josie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Josie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Josie is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.0×), Mississippi (2.5×), Utah (2.3×), Idaho (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Josie peaked:
Josie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Josie | 5,470 | 204th |
| France girls | Josie | 850 | 457th |
| Scotland girls | Josie | 330 | 160th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Josie | 113 | 126th |
| Ireland girls | Josie | 70 | 420th |
| Switzerland girls | Josie | 35 | 995th |
| Belgium girls | Josie | 22 | 1,182nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Josie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Josie | 31 | 0.002% | 859th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Josie | 4 | 0.001% | 859th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Josie: rank by region
In 2025, Josie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Josie | 753 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Josie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Josie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Josie | 12 | 16 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Josie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.