# Josie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/josie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jozi |
| US babies named this | 75,915 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 545 / 75,370 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,470, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,246 | 256 |
| 2012 | 1,277 | 253 |
| 2013 | 1,223 | 266 |
| 2014 | 1,288 | 252 |
| 2015 | 1,294 | 250 |
| 2016 | 1,368 | 237 |
| 2017 | 1,535 | 200 |
| 2018 | 1,586 | 192 |
| 2019 | 1,859 | 155 |
| 2020 | 2,003 | 135 |
| 2021 | 2,167 | 130 |
| 2022 | 2,372 | 120 |
| 2023 | 2,515 | 108 |
| 2024 | 2,903 | 88 |
| 2025 | 3,021 | 82 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | 7,538 |
| 2004 | 17 | 4,889 |
| 2006 | 6 | 11,304 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,307 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,822 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,009 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,050 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,391 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,099 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,255 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,040 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,031 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,627 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,497 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,295 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 208 | 239 |
| 2012 | 207 | 244 |
| 2013 | 191 | 251 |
| 2014 | 165 | 289 |
| 2015 | 155 | 310 |
| 2016 | 154 | 323 |
| 2017 | 184 | 267 |
| 2018 | 168 | 283 |
| 2019 | 188 | 256 |
| 2020 | 172 | 276 |
| 2021 | 161 | 293 |
| 2022 | 171 | 267 |
| 2023 | 162 | 277 |
| 2024 | 182 | 263 |
| 2025 | 186 | 250 |

## People named Josie

- Josie Maran, American model, actress, and entrepreneur (born 1978)
- Josie Loren, American actress
- Josie Bissett, American actress
- Josie Totah, American actress
- Josie Baff, Australian snowboarder (born 2003)
- Josie Davis, American actress, writer, and producer
- Josie Sedgwick, American actress (1898-1973)
- Josie Nelson, British cyclist
- Josephine Tomic, Australian bicycle racer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.