Girls' name · since 1968
Jossette
80 babies named Jossette in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 80
- total births
- 1968–2013
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 43%
- born in that decade
Jossette sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 80 recorded since 1968.
Jossette has 80 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 2013.
- 80 total births
- 1968–2013 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 43% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jossette's 80 recorded births place it above 59% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by Texas.
Jossette's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jossette's full recorded timeline at 1994, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1990, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1968 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jossette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–2013
- Peak year (1968)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 46 years of records
Jossette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jossette's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Jossette births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
22 births
- 1970s 8
1970s
8 births
- 1990s
1990s
34 births
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 34 births (43% of all-time use).
Jossette by state
Where Jossette concentrates geographically, total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 6.3% |
5 of 80 births nationwide.
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- Jossette's decade-level peak was the 1990s (34 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- Texas records the most Jossettes (5 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Texas names
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jossette: Baby Name Since 1968 - 80 Births, Peak 1968." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jossette. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jossette draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.