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Josee

Girls' name

English equivalent of Joseph

Josee has been given to 577 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1998, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Josee, 2023

1 in 663,000

Josee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josee: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Joseph

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josee means

Josee is a English equivalent of Joseph.

Origin, language, and formation

Josee is used in Manx.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 577 girls were recorded with the name Josee between 1960 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,251 in 1998.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Josee?

Josee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josee was born before 2002 — so the typical Josee is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
577
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (190).

Is Josee 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 1998 (38)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,251
1998

Spellings of Josee

Josee is not the most common spelling — Joyce is, with 37.1% against Josee's 0.04%.

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.

Josee around the world

Where Josee 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.

  • France
    1911–2008
    #5,435
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Josee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,251
1998
Peak year
1998
38 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
577
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Josee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JosiahJosiJossJoslinJoseyJossieJosilynJoshlynJosueJoshlynnJosefineJosslynnJosselinJosefaJosabetJosalynJosslynJosianeJosettaJoselyneKaseeJosselineJosephaJoselynn

Sibling names for Josee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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