Girls' name · since 1956
Josanna
110 babies named Josanna in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1982. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 110
- total births
- 1956–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 29%
- born in that decade
Josanna sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 110 recorded since 1956.
Josanna has 110 recorded births among girls since 1956, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1956 to 2025.
- 110 total births
- 1956–2025 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 29% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Josanna's 110 recorded births place it above 64% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Josanna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Josanna splits its recorded history at 2009: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1956 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1982 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Josanna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1956–2025
- Peak year (1982)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 70 years of records
Josanna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Josanna's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Josanna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 11
1950s
11 births
- 1980s
1980s
28 births
- 1990s 11
1990s
11 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 32 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Josanna's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (32 total births) through the 2020s (17) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1956–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Josanna: Baby Name Since 1956 - 110 Births, Peak 1982." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/josanna. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Josanna 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 July 2026.