Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Josi isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,059
- 0 boys · 1,059 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #8,082 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,082 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 7.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,200 as a first name in 2020; 146 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Josi’s family of names
Josi has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joseph.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Josi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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