Jossie

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Jossie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 670th, in 1883.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 192645 births
Best rank: #670in 1883
Since 1880: 2,028people given the name

Babies named Jossie, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

2,028 girls have been named Jossie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 45 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 45 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Jossie
1880s	76
1890s	134
1900s	175
1910s	286
1920s	343
1930s	226
1940s	158
1950s	84
1960s	35
1970s	27
1980s	90
1990s	151
2000s	126
2010s	81
2020s	36

In 1926, its biggest year

Jossie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.

Names that rose and fell with Jossie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.