Jozette — girls' name
513 babies named Jozette in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1970. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Jozette was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Jozette in 1970 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jozette
The Social Security Administration has registered 513 babies named Jozette between 1961 and 2022, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jozette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jozette performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jozette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jozette in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jozette 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 513 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.
Jozette at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jozette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1961
- Peak year (1970)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 62 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
513 total births across 62 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1970 with 29 births in a single year.
Jozette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 133 births that decade — 26% of Jozette's all-time total
Jozette decade highlights
- Peak decade 133 births
- Runner-up 98 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Jozette's strongest decade
133 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Jozette by state
Where Jozette concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 21 | 4.1% |
21 of 513 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.