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Josie vs Josue

American parents have registered 75,915 Josies since 1880, against 57,874 Josues. Josie is still ahead, with 3,027 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Josie against Josue, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Josie Josue

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Josie for 108 years and Josue for 38 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Josie Josue
Total US births 75,91557,874
Most in one year 3,0272,272
Babies in 2025 3,0271,026
Estimated living today 57,00057,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 82nd girls181st boys
Rank in 2025 82nd330th
First recorded 18801924
Girls / boys 75,370 / 545185 / 57,689

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Josues alive today are over 19; half the Josies are over 15. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Josie Josue
England and Wales 5,47089
France 8504,515
Belgium 22117 Josué
Switzerland 3593 Josué

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Josie and Josue.