Josphine
Josphine was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josphine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josphine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,702, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1918, the peak
Josphine peaked in 1918, when 17 girls were given it, #2,149 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,702 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,175 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,486 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,272 | 2.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,964 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,814 | 3.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,353 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,997 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,722 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,381 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | #5,657 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,927 | 3.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,277 | 4.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.2 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,541 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,979 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,675 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,850 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,925 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,202 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,567 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,215 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,212 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,821 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,225 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,266 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,461 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,625 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,149 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,930 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,404 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,004 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,013 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,052 | 16.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,282 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,374 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josphine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josphine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josphine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josphine, and how old are they?
An estimated 68 Americans named Josphine 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 657 people named Josphine (649 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.0 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 339,071 babies since 1880, Josphine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,267 babies recorded by SSA was a Josphine (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 Josphine
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 Josphine and names like it
- Compare Josphine and JosephineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sJosphine peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josphine since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Josphine.
- Names starting with JMost given first.