Josie Forename
7,485th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 139,761 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Falkland Islands
Josie Forename Definition:
A diminutive of Josephine.
Josie Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 93% | 57,391 | 1:1,847 | 385 |
| United States | 100% | 47,616 | 1:7,614 | 916 |
| Canada | 100% | 7,280 | 1:4,551 | 721 |
| England | 100% | 5,896 | 1:9,431 | 762 |
| Madagascar | - | 3,325 | 1:7,107 | 1,310 |
| Australia | - | 2,856 | 1:4,782 | 641 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,031 | 1:105,483 | 5,740 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,623 | 1:2,795 | 490 |
| Haiti | 100% | 1,594 | 1:6,730 | 846 |
| Ireland | 98% | 1,385 | 1:3,353 | 400 |
| Ghana | - | 1,068 | 1:25,268 | 1,746 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 933 | 1:33,025 | 4,029 |
| France | 100% | 762 | 1:87,231 | 2,058 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 416 | 1:57,139 | 8,273 |
| China | - | 334 | 1:4,089,987 | 53,288 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 320 | 1:95,156 | 6,760 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 301 | 1:11,795 | 721 |
| DR Congo | 79% | 288 | 1:256,346 | 10,648 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 227 | 1:74,459 | 4,363 |
| South Africa | 65% | 218 | 1:250,150 | 15,028 |
| Wales | 100% | 215 | 1:14,392 | 951 |
| Fiji | - | 201 | 1:4,440 | 1,122 |
| Papua New Guinea | 94% | 187 | 1:43,595 | 4,243 |
| Scotland | 99% | 186 | 1:28,765 | 1,191 |
| Germany | 100% | 181 | 1:534,132 | 5,487 |
| Qatar | 95% | 174 | 1:13,618 | 2,122 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 173 | 1:60,296 | 3,762 |
| Kuwait | - | 152 | 1:24,903 | 2,523 |
| Bahrain | - | 148 | 1:9,113 | 1,459 |
| Congo | 98% | 148 | 1:33,846 | 2,911 |
| Mexico | 92% | 142 | 1:874,257 | 7,569 |
| Indonesia | - | 136 | 1:1,896,792 | 98,933 |
| Cameroon | 76% | 122 | 1:177,135 | 7,800 |
| Malta | - | 119 | 1:3,608 | 560 |
| Hong Kong | - | 115 | 1:67,415 | 2,623 |
| Egypt | 63% | 108 | 1:850,935 | 16,903 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 104 | 1:68,769 | 5,867 |
| Malawi | 100% | 85 | 1:201,321 | 8,458 |
| India | 50% | 79 | 1:15,378,202 | 397,997 |
| Singapore | 100% | 70 | 1:89,815 | 7,269 |
| Thailand | 99% | 57 | 1:1,229,225 | 41,491 |
| Guam | - | 56 | 1:2,869 | 587 |
| Portugal | - | 55 | 1:189,288 | 4,092 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 47 | 1:174,755 | 4,319 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 47 | 1:642,593 | 15,894 |
| Spain | 100% | 43 | 1:1,082,092 | 9,010 |
| Japan | - | 42 | 1:3,047,287 | 23,072 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 36 | 1:51,198 | 1,225 |
| Peru | 97% | 36 | 1:883,096 | 12,468 |
| Liberia | 71% | 34 | 1:129,766 | 5,183 |
| Chile | 100% | 31 | 1:567,974 | 6,542 |
| Panama | 100% | 30 | 1:130,219 | 5,854 |
| Honduras | 100% | 29 | 1:304,051 | 5,793 |
| Belgium | 100% | 27 | 1:425,557 | 7,369 |
| American Samoa | - | 26 | 1:2,148 | 357 |
| Guernsey | - | 26 | 1:2,436 | 374 |
| Costa Rica | 77% | 25 | 1:190,718 | 4,516 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 25 | 1:283,547 | 466 |
| Italy | 97% | 21 | 1:2,907,719 | 17,790 |
| Nigeria | 72% | 20 | 1:8,878,218 | 108,497 |
| Bermuda | - | 17 | 1:3,813 | 661 |
| Ecuador | - | 16 | 1:1,107,932 | 8,230 |
| Norway | 100% | 16 | 1:320,771 | 6,812 |
| Sweden | 100% | 15 | 1:657,194 | 15,298 |
| Israel | - | 12 | 1:700,243 | 11,627 |
| Russia | 100% | 12 | 1:12,019,475 | 42,911 |
| Jersey | - | 11 | 1:9,089 | 812 |
| Vietnam | - | 10 | 1:9,262,311 | 4,040 |
| Denmark | - | 9 | 1:627,722 | 8,968 |
| Marshall Islands | 75% | 9 | 1:5,692 | 857 |
| Samoa | - | 9 | 1:21,688 | 450 |
| Sudan | - | 9 | 1:4,200,775 | 4,893 |
| Brunei | 100% | 8 | 1:52,446 | 1,266 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 8 | 1:2,297,434 | 45,707 |
| El Salvador | - | 8 | 1:792,723 | 5,723 |
| South Korea | - | 8 | 1:693,053 | 14,847 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 7 | 1:859,762 | 11,907 |
| Zambia | - | 7 | 1:2,264,971 | 21,963 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 7 | 1:2,203,402 | 59,073 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 6 | 1:226,903 | 11,844 |
| Uganda | - | 5 | 1:8,191,384 | 58,906 |
| Austria | 100% | 4 | 1:2,128,550 | 10,134 |
| Greece | - | 4 | 1:2,733,637 | 12,935 |
| Lebanon | - | 4 | 1:1,406,893 | 10,167 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Saint Lucia | 75% | 4 | 1:44,454 | 3,465 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Barbados | - | 3 | 1:96,596 | 2,324 |
| Belize | 100% | 3 | 1:118,103 | 5,590 |
| Benin | - | 3 | 1:3,525,281 | 51,145 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 3 | 1:1,047 | 226 |
| Kenya | - | 3 | 1:15,435,703 | 51,312 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Oman | - | 3 | 1:1,369,556 | 7,879 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3 | 1:17,596,106 | 69,562 |
| Argentina | - | 2 | 1:21,386,622 | 29,627 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 2 | 1:30,650 | 1,815 |
| Colombia | 100% | 2 | 1:23,889,463 | 63,722 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Guatemala | - | 2 | 1:8,054,214 | 10,362 |
| Guyana | - | 2 | 1:381,631 | 18,312 |
| Hungary | 76% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Jamaica | - | 2 | 1:1,441,614 | 15,741 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 50% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Turkey | 100% | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 2 | 1:54,874 | 3,819 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Finland | 86% | 1 | 1:5,483,183 | 25,487 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Poland | 100% | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Josiê (4), Josié (2) & Jôsie (1) are calculated separately.
Josie (290) may also be a surname.
Josie Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A diminutive of Josephine.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
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Sample size: 7,294 (2014)
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