Josee
Josee was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 577 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,265, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1998, the peak
Josee peaked in 1998, when 38 girls were given it, #3,251 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,265 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,375 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,884 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,209 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,835 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,914 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,028 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,123 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,662 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,573 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #8,331 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,280 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,741 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,343 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,786 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,205 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,438 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,464 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,113 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,536 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,011 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,338 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,113 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,869 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,836 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,251 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,060 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,187 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,408 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,297 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,473 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,132 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,122 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,932 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,066 | 3.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,824 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,628 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,235 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,770 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,995 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,787 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josee, and how old are they?
An estimated 566 Americans named Josee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,077 people named Josee (996 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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).
How common is the spelling Josee?
Josee is a less common spelling of Josie: SSA has recorded 577 Josee and 75,915 Josie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 83,933 babies since 1880, Josee is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,132 babies recorded by SSA was a Josee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Josee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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.
More about Josee and names like it
- Compare Josee and JosieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJosee peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Josee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.