Josie

What Josie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Josie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Josie?

US: Rising: up from #250 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #310 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,021 girls got the name (#82 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 532 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,362 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 852 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (9.24 per 1,000 girls), ME (8.03 per 1,000 girls), WY (7.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Josie is #82 in the US and #250 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Josie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jessie330 US · 101 E&W
• Jacie51 US
• Jozie50 US
• Jaysie7 US
• Jossie6 US
• Joycie0 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Jozi

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Josie

Girls

• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Sage#160“sedge”^*
• Ivy#39From the word “ivy”^*
• Aspen#266Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Aspen in 2025 were girls
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*

For a brother

• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Kairo#226Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 6 babies
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Walker#78Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #340 in 2015, #78 in 2025
• Cyrus#268Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US
• Emilio#154Spanish and Italian, meaning “rival”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Josie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.