Josey — #2325 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Josey

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,168 babies named Josey between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Josey currently holds the #2325 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 106 babies received it in a single year. Josey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 992 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Josey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 905 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Josey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 342 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Josey in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Josey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,168 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.