Hosie
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hosie has been given to 1,242 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Hosie, 1998
1 in 735,000
Hosie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hosie?
Hosie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 735,000
- 5 of 3,677,189 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 382,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 509,768 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hosie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hosie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hosies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hosie was born before 1935 — so the typical Hosie is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 18.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 340
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (221).
Is Hosie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (30)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Hosie
Hosie is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 76.7% against Hosie's 0.16%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Hosie is used
Across 1910–2025, Hosie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 61,772 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hosie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hosie around the world
Where Hosie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2023–2023#4,992in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Hosie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hosie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hosie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.