As a diminutive of Josephine, the French female form of Joseph, Josie also means “God adds”. The name’s origin is the Hebrew name Yosef.
Josie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Josie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Josie ranks 181. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Josie. In the entire USA, approximately 56,419 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Josie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Josie annualy. This means that there have been girls named Josie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Josie have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Josie even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #113 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Josie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Josie has never been ranked higher than #113. In 2022, she rivaled the 114 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 2,352 girls named Josie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Josie were born, there have been 365 newborns who received this name.
The name Josie may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Josie is apparently especially popular in New Mexico. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 754 women in New Mexico is called Josie. In total, that’s 1,049 women who feel addressed when the name Josie is shouted loudly across New Mexico and who ensure that their name makes it to #212 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Josie as the answer a total of 56,409 times. This places Josie at #482 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Josie as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Josie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Josie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Josie, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Sun
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Josie
Josie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
S
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
S
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Josie sounds like this:
