girls:
69.4k births since 1880
#473 (92nd percentile)
boys:
532 births since 1896
#4054 (12th percentile)
overall:
69.9k births since 1880
#870 (89th percentile)
The name Josie is the #870 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,939 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #473 (91.7% percentile) for all time with 69,407 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,054 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 532 births since 1896.
Josie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1896 for boys).
The name Josie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Josie reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #105) with 1,432 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 1,507 births per million (ranked 48.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Josie ranks #105 for girls (89.0% percentile) with 1,432 births per million, which is 95.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Josie reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #515) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Josie ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 14.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Josie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.4% confident that Josie is pronounced as JOH-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-see, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH OW1 Z IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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