Josey

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Josey: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

1registrar recorded it
10times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#2701highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3824
1998	#2701
2001	#2783
2005	#4798
2006	#4157
2013	#4739
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 8 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #2701 among girls in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5137 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Josey appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 31 births with the name.

Josey across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Josey's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2701 (1998)	#5891 (2024)	8 of 29	31 (1996–2024)	5 (1998)
England and Wales · Boys	#4333 (2007)	#4333 (2007)	#5137 (2025)	2 of 19	6 (2007–2025)	3 (2007)

Josey by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Josey in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000s	12	3 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2701 in England and Wales in 1998.

Josey's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#5137	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #2701 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Josey

Josey at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Josey across 2 official records

Josey by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Josey at a glance

Josey across 2 official records

Josey by decade in England and Wales · Girls