Josie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Josie is a given name, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 3.2K◐
  • CACanada1 in 5.8K
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 6.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈101K ●

across 12 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
422 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 15K ◐

India

Spellings & scripts●

JoshiLatin · Hindi●956K records
ДжозиCyrillic · Russian●8 records
โจซThai · Thai●0 records
జషTelugu · Telugu●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joshi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 3 more and Josi in CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Josie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#18889,107656K rec.1 in 15K89KJoshi293
PH Philippines—53,00150K rec.——Josie94
GB United Kingdom—24,53319K rec.—26Josie177
AU Australia—16,98815K rec.—8Josie178
CA Canada—14,18711K rec.—36Josie148
US United States—10,089292K rec.1 in 33K46KJosie422
BR Brazil—1,64313 rec.—5.6KJosie5
IT Italy—1,2971.5K rec.—2Josie31
NZ New Zealand—1,263981 rec.—21Josie70
IE Ireland—790834 rec.——Josie39
ID Indonesia—780762 rec.——Joshi33
MY Malaysia—643890 rec.——Joshi34

Roughly 89K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 15K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English365K71%
  • Spanish38K7%
  • Portuguese29K6%
  • 28K5%
  • French13K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English365,07671%
Spanish37,6937%
Portuguese29,2496%
27,6085%
French12,5642%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Josie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name74K records spelled Josie12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Josiê, Jôsie, Josię, Josiè, Josié

  • French given name14K records spelled Josie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Josié, Josiê

  • German given name5.5K records spelled Josie3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Also written Josié

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Josie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, diminutive of Josephine/Joseph

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • 1 (f.) English: pet form of JOSEPHINE , occasionally used as an independent given name in the 20th century. 2 (m.) Scottish: pet form of JOSEPH , in Gaelic Seòsaidh . Top

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K190019502000

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Josie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880141
1881149
1882169
1883148
1884198
1885211
1886212
1887192
1888257
1889207
1890242
1891218
1892263
1893233
1894241
1895234
1896227
1897209
1898219
1899243
1900266
1901205
1902221
1903210
1904206
1905217
1906193
1907191
1908207
1909202
1910251
1911193
1912269
1913257
1914344
1915379
1916363
1917403
1918430
1919481
1920436
1921420
1922448
1923413
1924426
1925409
1926406
1927409
1928364
1929364
1930356
1931338
1932291
1933334
1934379
1935376
1936330
1937353
1938373
1939334
1940337
1941345
1942362
1943331
1944352
1945335
1946332
1947360
1948351
1949269
1950246
1951233
1952196
1953203
1954228
1955222
1956280
1957276
1958267
1959276
1960305
1961253
1962232
1963222
1964204
1965180
1966163
1967140
1968184
1969177
1970170
1971227
1972214
1973192
1974211
1975196
1976215
1977232
1978215
1979251
1980269
1981261
1982274
1983298
1984249
1985220
1986204
1987202
1988248
1989320
1990363
1991350
1992364
1993401
1994574
1995725
1996820
1997752
1998801
1999889
2000970
20011,101
20021,110
20031,018
2004975
20051,017
20061,124
20071,129
20081,134
20091,056
20101,251
20111,246
20121,277
20131,223
20141,288
20151,294
20161,368
20171,535
20181,586
20191,859
20202,003
20212,167
20222,372
20232,515
20242,903
20253,021

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Josie MacAvin, b. 1919Josie Lawrence, b. 1959Josie Bissett, b. 1970Josie Walker, b. 1970Josie Davis, b. 1973Josie Ho, b. 1974Josie Maran, b. 1978Josie Loren, b. 1987Josie Totah, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 68 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Josie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202046K#951
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20253K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.6K#6,735
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#5,945
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024690#2,785
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020549#951
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—379#5,945
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020353#61,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010313#63,698
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000266#68,973
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024165—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 686 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Josie?
We estimate roughly 101 thousand people bear Josie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Josie have the most bearers?
We estimate about 89 thousand people bear Josie in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled joshi.
How common is Josie compared with other names?
In India, Josie is the 188th most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
Is Josie a male or female name?
Josie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Josie mean?
Recorded meaning: Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josie” — the 188th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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