Josie

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Josie: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #160, and it stood at #443 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#160highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Josie's record

Moved 283 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#215
1997	#231
1998	#215
1999	#227
2000	#216
2001	#201
2002	#204
2003	#246
2004	#220
2005	#232
2006	#277
2007	#249
2008	#316
2009	#271
2010	#268
2011	#239
2012	#244
2013	#251
2014	#289
2015	#310
2016	#323
2017	#267
2018	#283
2019	#256
2020	#276
2021	#293
2022	#267
2023	#277
2024	#263

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #160 among girls in Scotland, #192 among girls in Northern Ireland, #263 among girls in England and Wales, #412 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #215 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
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Josie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,284 births with the name.

Josie across 3 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.

Josie'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	#215 (1996)	#201 (2001)	#263 (2024)	29 of 29	5,284 (1996–2024)	214 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#412 (2024)	#443 (2025)	13 of 23	70 (2003–2025)	9 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#209 (2005)	#171 (2021)	#192 (2024)	16 of 20	97 (2005–2024)	12 (2021)

Josie 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 Josie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	745	4 of 10	186
2000sbusiest	1,887	10 of 10	189
2010s	1,804	10 of 10	180
2020s	848	5 of 10	170

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 189 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births fell by 53, from 200 to 147.

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

Josie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #160 in Scotland in 2024.

Josie'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#263	182	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#277	162	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#267	171	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#293	161	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#276	172	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#256	188	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#283	168	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#267	184	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#323	154	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#310	155	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#289	165	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#251	191	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#244	207	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#239	208	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#268	184	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#271	178	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#316	147	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#249	200	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#277	168	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#232	199	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#220	206	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#246	182	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#204	214	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#201	199	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#216	194	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#227	180	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#215	194	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#231	174	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#215	197	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#192	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#183	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#171	12	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#281	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#213	8	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#313	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#248	7	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#330	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#412	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#160	26	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #160, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 214 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Joshua-James · #1095, 27y
Josiah · #98, 30y
Josie-Leigh · #3695, 11y
Joss · #280, 31y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Judah · #159, 29y
Macy · #161, 28y
Meadow · #159, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Judah · #159, 29y
Macy · #161, 28y
Meadow · #159, 28y

Josie was ranked #160 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Josie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Josie without appearing here.

Josie moved ahead of

Anita Compare
In 2021 they stood at #734 and #734 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #420 and #905.
Audrey Compare
In 2021 they stood at #764 and #661 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #420 and #905.
Deborah Compare
In 2021 they stood at #700 and #700 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #420 and #905.
Bernadette Compare
In 2022 they stood at #700 and #700 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2023 that had become #495 and #856.

Moved ahead of Josie

Maja Compare
In 2007 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #73.
Summer Compare
In 2007 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #155.
Fiadh Compare
In 2007 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #341.
Maisie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #341.

Moved the opposite way to Josie

Audrey Compare
Between 2008 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #750 to #443 while Audrey went from #469 to #885.
Ida Compare
Between 2008 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #750 to #443 while Ida went from #546 to #885.
Laila Compare
Between 2008 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #750 to #443 while Laila went from #241 to #352.

Moved the same way as Josie

Rian Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Girls, Josie went from #215 to #310 and Rian from #2350 to #5730.
Elsie Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #413 to #192 and Elsie from #413 to #27.
Evelyn Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in Northern Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #413 to #192 and Evelyn from #301 to #75.
Isla Compare
Between 2008 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Josie went from #750 to #443 and Isla from #230 to #13.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #160 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Josie

Josie at a glance

What stands out in Josie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Josie across 3 official records

Josie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Josie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Josie at a glance

What stands out in Josie's record

Josie across 3 official records

Josie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Josie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Josie

Josie and the names beside it

Josie moved ahead of

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