Josey
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 76.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 88 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,231since 1915
Josey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #2,778 | 61 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #2,193 | 86 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #2,155 | 86 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #2,159 | 87 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #2,087 | 93 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #2,385 | 78 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #2,408 | 76 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #1,886 | 106 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #2,017 | 97 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #2,050 | 96 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #2,014 | 93 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #2,446 | 69 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #1,985 | 91 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #2,081 | 82 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #1,791 | 97 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #1,884 | 78 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #2,125 | 64 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #1,863 | 75 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,381 | 54 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #1,706 | 41 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Josey! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1919, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Josey is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#720 · 1 in 3,149
- Tennessee#1,067 · 1 in 6,120
- Georgia#1,165 · 1 in 6,732
- North Carolina#1,242 · 1 in 7,564
- Ohio#1,460 · 1 in 10,355
Best ever in a state: #357 in Arkansas, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #720 | 5 | 1 in 3,149 |
| Tennessee | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 6,120 |
| Georgia | #1,165 | 7 | 1 in 6,732 |
| North Carolina | #1,242 | 6 | 1 in 7,564 |
| Ohio | #1,460 | 5 | 1 in 10,355 |
| Texas | #1,751 | 12 | 1 in 13,323 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Josey
- 475 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #2,778)
- 622 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #2,778)
- 370 spots since 2015 (#2,408 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1998 at #1,774 (88 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,614 girls born in 2012 were named Josey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,774 in 1998, was only 1 in 20,079 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all girls named Josey (905) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1989, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 12 | #4,306 (1926) | #4,352 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 23 | #4,124 (1942) | #4,470 |
| 1950s | 26 | #4,520 (1958) | #5,170 |
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 73 | #4,679 (1978) | #6,217 |
| 1980s | 225 | #2,781 (1984) | #3,899 |
| 1990s | 594 | #1,774 (1998) | #2,335 |
| 2000s | 882 | #1,791 (2000) | #2,100 |
| 2010s | 905 | #1,886 (2012) | #2,131 |
| 2020s | 474 | #2,119 (2021) | #2,327 |
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.
Josey in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 18,564 of them was named Josey, which outranked 88.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,074Sabina94
- #2,074Safiya94
- #2,074Trisha94
- #2,087Josey93
- #2,087Acacia93
- #2,087Emarie93
- #2,087Emeline93
- #2,097Analiyah92
- #2,097Deasia92
- #2,097Doris92
Tied with 9 names at #2,087; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 80,476 of them was named Josey, which outranked 69.6% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,224Zaylon24
- #4,224Zeno24
- #4,224Zylen24
- #4,331Josey23
- #4,331Alexi23
- #4,331Alexsander23
- #4,331Anden23
- #4,466Abdoul22
- #4,466Abdulmalik22
- #4,466Abran22
Tied with 134 names at #4,331; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.