Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Josey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Josey” 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 “Josey” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josey” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 15 0.000004943 10 5 33%
1977 24 0.000007555 11 13 -8%
1978 22 0.000006932 14 8 27%
1979 20 0.000006011 10 10 0%
1980 47 0.000013645 18 29 -23%
1981 44 0.000012719 16 28 -27%
1982 38 0.000010833 16 22 -16%
1983 52 0.000015014 31 21 19%
1984 58 0.000016625 33 25 14%
1985 37 0.000010367 12 25 -35%
1986 41 0.000011526 24 17 17%
1987 52 0.000014422 21 31 -19%
1988 68 0.000018403 27 41 -21%
1989 69 0.000017948 27 42 -22%
1990 83 0.000020999 45 38 8%
1991 73 0.000018741 42 31 15%
1992 71 0.000018483 46 25 30%
1993 69 0.000018301 41 28 19%
1994 81 0.000021788 54 27 33%
1995 107 0.000029218 75 32 40%
1996 79 0.00002166 64 15 62%
1997 98 0.000027029 78 20 59%
1998 109 0.000029634 88 21 61%
1999 86 0.000023282 61 25 42%
2000 116 0.000030689 97 19 67%
2001 94 0.000025111 76 18 62%
2002 100 0.00002675 82 18 64%
2003 105 0.000027615 91 14 73%
2004 87 0.000022769 69 18 59%
2005 101 0.000026269 93 8 84%
2006 106 0.000026793 96 10 81%
2007 101 0.000025265 86 15 70%
2008 104 0.000026459 88 16 69%
2009 118 0.000030889 104 14 76%
2010 109 0.000029493 94 15 72%
2011 103 0.000028159 97 6 88%
2012 121 0.000033084 106 15 75%
2013 116 0.000031819 99 17 71%
2014 106 0.000028599 89 17 68%
2015 88 0.000023778 76 12 73%
2016 96 0.000026167 78 18 63%
2017 116 0.000032437 93 23 60%
2018 103 0.000029296 87 16 69%
2019 102 0.000029387 86 16 69%
2020 106 0.000031731 84 22 58%
2021 107 0.000031583 88 19 64%
2022 107 0.000031627 86 21 61%
2023 93 0.000028087 74 19 59%
2024 106 0.000031846 79 27 49%

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