Meaning not yet researched.
Josette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 109 in 2025. Its best rank was #417 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #417 in 1968; #1,836 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,836 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #417.
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Josette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 109 girls in 2025. Peak: #417 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 504 (1968).
In 2025, 109 US girls were named Josette, making it the 1,836th most common girls’ name of the year, up 387 places from #2,223 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 85 girls named Josette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #417, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 504. For comparison, it was #2,758 in 2015 and #1,418 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josette in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 7 babies. In all, 6,659 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,435 babies named Josette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 744 US girls were named Josette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,746 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Josette ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,012 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joette (2,000 babies since 1880) and Jolette (751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jozette, Joseth and Jossette are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jozette (513), Joseth (217), Jossette (80), Josett (32), Joesette (18), Joset (16), Jovette (10), Joezette (5), Jozett (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Josette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #1,012 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,134 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,605 | #2,236 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,744 | #3,064 |
| New York | 5 | #2,239 | — |
| California | 5 | #3,304 | #1,979 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2024 | 85 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2020 | 74 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,984 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,533 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,232 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1978 | 85 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1977 | 99 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1975 | 96 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1974 | 120 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1973 | 162 | #810 | — | — |
| 1972 | 175 | #782 | — | — |
| 1971 | 218 | #700 | — | — |
| 1970 | 298 | #590 | — | — |
| 1969 | 293 | #578 | — | — |
| 1968 | 504 | #417 | — | — |
| 1967 | 181 | #729 | — | — |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1962 | 59 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1960 | 58 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1958 | 71 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1953 | 66 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1947 | 60 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,924 | — | — |
| 1942 | 53 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1939 | 49 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,319 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,203 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,236 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,835 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,203 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,728 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).