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How popular is the name Josie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Josies are alive today.
Josie (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 250th in 2025 with 186 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2002, when 214 babies were given the name, the 204th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2011, with 208 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 323 in 2016 before climbing back to the 250th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 5,400 babies have been named Josie in England and Wales since 1996. Josie is also a common short form of Josephine, so many people called Josie are registered under the longer name.
The Josie you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Josies born in England and Wales are between 10 and 29, and there are at least 6,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Josie.
How many babies are named Josie each year?
Where does Josie rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Josie most popular?
Josie peaked in 2002, when 214 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Josie?
At least 6,800 people named Josie born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Josie?
Most living Josies are between 10 and 29; the most common age is about 14.
Is Josie becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.