Josie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.8Kas Joshi(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 13Kas Joshi
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14Kas Joshi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Josie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #909 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
89,107 named Joshi
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Joshi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joshi in IN India, ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #154 | 89,107as Joshi | 1 in 15K | 89K | Joshi | 320 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Joshi | 34 |
| US United States | — | 10,089as Joshi | 1 in 33K | 46K | Josie | 465 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 26 | Josie | 227 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 8 | Josie | 188 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Josie | 38 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Josie | 62 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Josie | 12 |
89,107 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Josie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, diminutive of Josephine/Joseph
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
1 (f.) English: pet form of JOSEPHINE , occasionally used as an independent given name in the 20th century. 2 (m.) Scottish: pet form of JOSEPH , in Gaelic Seòsaidh . Top
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josie MacAvinb. 1919IEIreland's set decorator
- Josie Lawrenceb. 1959GBBritish actor and comedian
- Josie Bissettb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Josie Walkerb. 1970GBIrish actress
- Josie Davisb. 1973USAmerican actress, writer, and producer
- Josie Hob. 1974CNHong Kong singer
- Josie Maranb. 1978USAmerican model, actress, and entrepreneur (born 1978)
- Josie Lorenb. 1987USAmerican actress
- Josie Totahb. 2001USAmerican actress
- Josie TrinidadUSstory artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46K | #951 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 549 | #951 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 353 | #61,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 313 | #63,698 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 266 | #68,973 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 26 | #160 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 16 | #126 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Josie?
- In the etymology graph, Josefina, Jo and Josefa are forms of the same name in other languages; Jolene and Joetta are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Josephine.
- Is Josie a male or female name?
- Josie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Josie mean, and where does it come from?
- Pet form of Josephine, now widely used as an independent given name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Josie have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 89 thousand people named Joshi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Josie?
- In India, the national register counted 89,107 people named Joshi, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Josie compared with other names?
- In India, Josie is the 154th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josie” — the 154th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.