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Josiane

#13,976 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Joséphine

Josiane has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #13,976 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Josiane, 2025

1 in 553,000

Josiane over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josiane: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Joséphine

French

What Josiane means

Josiane is a diminutive of Joséphine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Josiane is used in French and Portuguese (Brazilian).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʒo.zjan/ for Josiane.

Origin, language, and formation

Josiane is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Josiane comes through French Josiane.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joséphine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 girls were recorded with the name Josiane between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,707 in 2021.

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 Josiane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,976
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josiane 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josiane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josianes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josiane was born before 2021 — so the typical Josiane is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
141
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Choose a decade

2020s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Josiane 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
+288
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
14.6%
Peak was 2021 (41)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,707
2021

Spellings of Josiane

Josiane is not the most common spelling — Josie is, with 92.4% against Josiane's 0.18%.

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 Josiane is used

Across 1910–2025, Josiane was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 877,208 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Josiane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Josiane around the world

Where Josiane 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 & Wales
    1998–2011
    #3,549
    in 2011
  • France
    1909–2025
    #4,429
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Josiane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,976
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,707
2021
Peak year
2021
41 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Josiane

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

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Sibling names for Josiane

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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