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Jossie

#13,978 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jossie has been given to 2,051 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,978 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Jossie, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jossie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jossie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jossie means

Jossie is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jossie is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,034 girls were recorded with the name Jossie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1926; its best national rank was #670 in 1883.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,664 in 2015 to #13,978 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Jossie between 1990 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1990; its best national rank was #7,600 in 1990.

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 Jossie?

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
#13,978
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jossie 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 Jossie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jossies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jossie was born before 1930 — so the typical Jossie is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
636
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (343).

Is Jossie 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−314
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.3%
Peak was 1926 (45)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1883

Spellings of Jossie

Jossie is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 21.7% against Jossie's 0.26%.

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 Jossie is used

Across 1910–2025, Jossie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 161,652 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 14,286
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Jossie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jossie around the world

Where Jossie 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.

  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jossie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#670
1883
Peak year
1926
45 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,034
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,600
1990
Peak year
1990
6 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jossie

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

JoslinJosieJosefaJosalynJosslynJoshlynJoseyJoslynnJosilynRossieJoselinJosiahHassieJoscelynJosephJoslynKaysieDaisieJoselynnKensieJosetteJosselynJoselyneJoseline

Names with a curve like Jossie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jossie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jossie

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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