Josephene
Josephene was last recorded in 2007, when 8 babies were given it; 278 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josephene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josephene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,234, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1919, the peak
Josephene peaked in 1919, when 16 girls were given it, #2,196 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,234 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,322 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,662 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,522 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,490 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,784 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,682 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,883 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,879 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,996 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 8 | #3,391 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,688 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,010 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,661 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,025 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,534 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,034 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,580 | 6.9 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,674 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,292 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,503 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,965 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,061 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,164 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,508 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,461 | 12.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,517 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,235 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,176 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,196 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,131 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,213 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,431 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,006 | 6.1 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,497 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,667 | 12.0 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,807 | 20.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josephene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josephene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josephene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josephene, and how old are they?
An estimated 63 Americans named Josephene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 169 people named Josephene (169 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 88 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 337,816 babies since 1880, Josephene is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,252 babies recorded by SSA was a Josephene (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 Josephene
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 Josephene and names like it
- Compare Josephene and JosephineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sJosephene peaked in 1919.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Josephene.
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