Josanna
Josanna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,974 among girls’ names; 110 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josanna?
#13,974 among girls’ names, 2025
Josanna entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,974 in 2025.
9 babies in 1982, the peak
Josanna peaked in 1982, when 9 girls were given it, #7,127 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,974 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,374 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,219 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,661 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,336 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,445 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,092 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,066 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,288 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,617 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,352 | 3.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,813 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,241 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,433 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,410 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,127 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,606 | 3.6 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,710 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,379 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 106 Americans named Josanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 207 people named Josanna (206 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Josanna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Vanna | 2,068 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.