Josie

Where Josie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Josie.

  • Vowel-ended
Josie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #116 among girls, with 141 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1978
    Josie Maran born
    American model, actress, and entrepreneur
  3. 1987
    Josie Loren born
    American actress
  4. 2025
    Peak, #82
    3,021 babies named Josie, the most in any year.
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #82 after sinking to #855 in 1967.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Namesakes
  • Josie Maran · American model, actress, and entrepreneur, born 1978
  • Josie Loren · American actress, born 1987
  • Josie Bissett · American actress, born 1970
  • Josie Knight · Irish now UK cyclist, born 1997
  • Josie Totah · American actress, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.