Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jozy is a diminutive of Josephine. Josephine comes from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Jozy is a diminutive of Josephine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jozy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 19 boys · 107 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −74%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2006.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jozy’s family of names
In English usage, Jozy is a diminutive of Josephine. In English usage, Jozy has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Джози.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jozy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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