How popular is “Josephine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josephine” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Josephine” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Josephine” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Josephine” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Josephine” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Josephine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josephine” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	544	0.002699966	544		100%
1881	563	0.002921822	563		100%
1882	638	0.002879932	638		100%
1883	697	0.003212781	697		100%
1884	800	0.003285947	800		100%
1885	789	0.003275844	783	6	98%
1886	844	0.003305707	844		100%
1887	815	0.003294367	815		100%
1888	1006	0.003359223	1001	5	99%
1889	1053	0.00364428	1047	6	99%
1890	1124	0.003729251	1118	6	99%
1891	1036	0.003613874	1031	5	99%
1892	1216	0.003636646	1210	6	99%
1893	1178	0.00362213	1178		100%
1894	1256	0.003708406	1256		100%
1895	1334	0.003800353	1334		100%
1896	1263	0.003533025	1256	7	99%
1897	1274	0.003671925	1267	7	99%
1898	1425	0.003735696	1425		100%
1899	1394	0.004109258	1388	6	99%
1900	1749	0.00388444	1743	6	99%
1901	1442	0.004169896	1434	8	99%
1902	1572	0.00406482	1565	7	99%
1903	1599	0.004194648	1587	12	98%
1904	1701	0.00421577	1701		100%
1905	1901	0.004484315	1894	7	99%
1906	1908	0.004453251	1900	8	99%
1907	2164	0.004649864	2156	8	99%
1908	2397	0.004905362	2389	8	99%
1909	2427	0.00474743	2416	11	99%
1910	2809	0.004755286	2801	8	99%
1911	3025	0.004695178	3011	14	99%
1912	3990	0.004038208	3980	10	99%
1913	4835	0.004252007	4822	13	99%
1914	5913	0.004174833	5896	17	99%
1915	7622	0.004159513	7606	16	100%
1916	8142	0.00420902	8127	15	100%
1917	8344	0.004157967	8326	18	100%
1918	8709	0.00401131	8682	27	99%
1919	8124	0.00384979	8104	20	100%
1920	8107	0.003582978	8093	14	100%
1921	8156	0.003493674	8135	21	99%
1922	7887	0.003445375	7864	23	99%
1923	7575	0.003289929	7560	15	100%
1924	7291	0.003061374	7274	17	100%
1925	6835	0.002929325	6810	25	99%
1926	6428	0.002799767	6410	18	99%
1927	6140	0.002647284	6108	32	99%
1928	5701	0.00252152	5671	30	99%
1929	5324	0.002428654	5298	26	99%
1930	5021	0.002258367	4988	33	99%
1931	4533	0.00215407	4497	36	98%
1932	4131	0.001956623	4094	37	98%
1933	3590	0.001795496	3570	20	99%
1934	3762	0.001811427	3742	20	99%
1935	3286	0.001572324	3262	24	99%
1936	3166	0.00152389	3141	25	98%
1937	2968	0.001392989	2942	26	98%
1938	3002	0.001356791	2978	24	98%
1939	2859	0.001297515	2837	22	98%
1940	2756	0.001196864	2744	12	99%
1941	2746	0.001127061	2726	20	99%
1942	2765	0.001012146	2748	17	99%
1943	2679	0.000949139	2664	15	99%
1944	2337	0.000868748	2324	13	99%
1945	2156	0.000812692	2146	10	99%
1946	2234	0.00069915	2228	6	99%
1947	2351	0.000652635	2351		100%
1948	2237	0.000647933	2230	7	99%
1949	2163	0.0006207	2163		100%
1950	2093	0.000597427	2093		100%
1951	1975	0.00053614	1966	9	99%
1952	1868	0.000491837	1862	6	99%
1953	1807	0.000468907	1799	8	99%
1954	1726	0.000433591	1719	7	99%
1955	1601	0.000398747	1595	6	99%
1956	1494	0.000362354	1485	9	99%
1957	1442	0.000343158	1442		100%
1958	1279	0.000309393	1274	5	99%
1959	1177	0.000283069	1177		100%
1960	1165	0.000280465	1158	7	99%
1961	1210	0.000292108	1203	7	99%
1962	1109	0.00027482	1104	5	99%
1963	1059	0.000267546	1053	6	99%
1964	971	0.000249768	962	9	98%
1965	870	0.00023997	863	7	98%
1966	838	0.000241106	838		100%
1967	744	0.000219152	744		100%
1968	693	0.000205126	693		100%
1969	699	0.000201132	699		100%
1970	677	0.000187716	677		100%
1971	603	0.000175681	603		100%
1972	580	0.000184537	580		100%
1973	535	0.000177335	535		100%
1974	536	0.000176316	536		100%
1975	462	0.000153011	456	6	97%
1976	431	0.000142043	431		100%
1977	442	0.000139147	442		100%
1978	457	0.000143988	457		100%
1979	437	0.00013135	437		100%
1980	502	0.000145739	502		100%
1981	476	0.000137597	476		100%
1982	491	0.000139967	491		100%
1983	480	0.000138595	480		100%
1984	437	0.00012526	437		100%
1985	423	0.000118517	423		100%
1986	456	0.000128195	456		100%
1987	436	0.000120923	436		100%
1988	508	0.000137481	503	5	98%
1989	536	0.000139422	527	9	97%
1990	579	0.00014649	579		100%
1991	607	0.00015583	607		100%
1992	591	0.000153855	591		100%
1993	596	0.000158078	596		100%
1994	648	0.000174304	648		100%
1995	700	0.000191144	700		100%
1996	725	0.000198783	725		100%
1997	784	0.000216231	784		100%
1998	840	0.000228372	840		100%
1999	989	0.000267741	989		100%
2000	1116	0.000295246	1116		100%
2001	1153	0.00030801	1153		100%
2002	1198	0.000320467	1198		100%
2003	1257	0.000330588	1257		100%
2004	1337	0.000349915	1337		100%
2005	1490	0.000387532	1490		100%
2006	1548	0.000391286	1548		100%
2007	1562	0.000390726	1562		100%
2008	1634	0.000415706	1634		100%
2009	1627	0.000425897	1627		100%
2010	1677	0.000453766	1677		100%
2011	1730	0.000472963	1730		100%
2012	1957	0.000535084	1957		100%
2013	2012	0.000551888	2012		100%
2014	2286	0.000616775	2286		100%
2015	2505	0.00067686	2505		100%
2016	2797	0.000762396	2797		100%
2017	2822	0.000789107	2822		100%
2018	3048	0.00086692	3048		100%
2019	3122	0.00089947	3122		100%
2020	3057	0.000915111	3057		100%
2021	3389	0.00100031	3389		100%
2022	3263	0.00096449	3263		100%
2023	3371	0.001018061	3366	5	100%
2024	3746	0.001125432	3746		100%

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