Josaphine

Peak · girls
2004 · 11 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
201
since 1993

Josaphine over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Josaphine has never cracked the top 9,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #9,264, 2004girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#10,1079
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2022#15,3065
2021#10,2929
2020#11,0908
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2018#13,7936
2017#10,6899
2016#10,11310
2015#10,14810
2014#9,51711
2013#10,23510
2012#14,9626
2011#10,37410
2010#11,2469
2009#10,67910
2008#10,80710
2007#13,9247
2006#10,61110
2005#14,5026
2004#9,26411
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1999#11,3857
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1996#13,5185
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First appearance
1993

The first year at least five girls were named Josaphine! It came in at #13,442, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1993–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Josaphine is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Josaphine in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Josaphine
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 983 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,107)
  • 41 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1993
  • Peaked 2004 at #9,264 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 15 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 162,396
  • Highest: 1 in 162,396 girls born in 2014 were named Josaphine (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #9,264 in 2004, was only 1 in 166,932 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.3% of all girls named Josaphine (81) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s30#9,802 (1997)#12,315
2000s59#9,264 (2004)#12,117
2010s81#9,517 (2014)#11,231
2020s31#10,107 (2025)#11,699

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.

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