Josi
Josi was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,080 among girls’ names; 1,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Josi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josi?
#8,080 among girls’ names, 2025
Josi fell from #6,334 in 2015 to #8,080 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.1 per million.
36 babies in 2002, the peak
Josi peaked in 2002, when 36 girls were given it, #3,679 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,080 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,268 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,464 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,084 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,641 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,737 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,337 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,234 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,731 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,766 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,334 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,133 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,949 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,212 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,702 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,318 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,925 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,242 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,194 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,732 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,414 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,648 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,678 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,679 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,979 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,463 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,534 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,512 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,279 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,982 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,266 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,337 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,916 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,842 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,561 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,836 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,737 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,934 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,008 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,346 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,843 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,066 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,181 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,101 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,395 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,081 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,587 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,333 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,058 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,461 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,556 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,841 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,969 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,660 | 3.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,666 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,238 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,016 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,788 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,799 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josi, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,059 Americans ever recorded as Josi. The median Josi alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,200 people named Josi (1,100 women and girls, 100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Josi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 405 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 238 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Josi?
Josi is a less common spelling of Josie: SSA has recorded 1,059 Josi and 75,915 Josie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 83,933 babies since 1880, Josi is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 3,132 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Josi
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 Josi and names like it
- Compare Josi and JosieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosi peaked in 2002.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josi since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Josi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.