Josely
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Josely has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1992, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Josely, 2024
1 in 557,000
Josely 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Josely?
Josely had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Josely sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joselys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Josely was born before 2008 — so the typical Josely is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 77
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Josely 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 1992 (6)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.3% average annual change
Spellings of Josely
Josely is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 49.6% against Josely's 0.03%.
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.
Josely around the world
Where Josely 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.
- France1959–1959#1,583in 1959
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Josely by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Josely
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Josely
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.