Josi
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 35 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,059since 1959
Josi over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Josi has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 |
| 2004 | #4,601 | 29 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 |
| 1990 | #3,813 | 27 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
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First appearance
1959
The first year at least five girls were named Josi! It came in at #4,625, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Josi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Josi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Josi
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,718 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #7,885)
- 2,218 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #7,885)
- 1,649 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1999 at #3,509 (35 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 14 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 49,913
- Highest: 1 in 49,913 girls born in 2002 were named Josi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,509 in 1999, was only 1 in 50,681 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 25.4% of all girls named Josi (269) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 8 | #4,625 (1959) | #4,625 |
| 1960s | 23 | #5,456 (1969) | #6,304 |
| 1970s | 88 | #3,514 (1975) | #5,621 |
| 1980s | 130 | #4,109 (1983) | #5,791 |
| 1990s | 236 | #3,509 (1999) | #4,542 |
| 2000s | 269 | #3,654 (2002) | #5,027 |
| 2010s | 187 | #5,247 (2010) | #6,645 |
| 2020s | 118 | #5,390 (2023) | #6,111 |
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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