Boys' name · since 2020
Josani
14 babies named Josani in U.S. Social Security records since 2020, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #31,850 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,614 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 14
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
14 babies have been named Josani since 2020, making it today's #9614 boys' name.
Social Security Administration records show Josani recorded 14 times among boys since 2020, holding rank #9614 nationally today, ahead of 31% of boys, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2020 to 2025.
- #31,850 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #9,614 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 14 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Josani ranks #31,850 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,614 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 14 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #31,850 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,614 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 14
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Josani's 14 recorded births place it above 29.67% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Josani compares
14 5th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Josani's all-time total is 96% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Josani | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 14 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 34 | 22,252 |
Josani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Josani's SSA record in two at 2025 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2020, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Josani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Josani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (14 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Josani's strongest decade.
14 babies received the name during that partial window (2020–2025, six of ten years), about 100% of all-time use.
Josani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window. * 2020s covers 2020–2025 only (six of ten years), so it is not directly comparable to a full decade.
- 2020s*
2020s (partial decade: 2020–2025, six of ten years)
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 14 births (100% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2020–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Josani draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.