Josette
Josette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 85 births. Its best rank was 417th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 850.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1968504 births
- Best rank
- #417in 1968
- Since 1916
- 6,549people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,549 girls have been named Josette in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 504 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 22%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Josette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | |
| 1920s | 38 | |
| 1930s | 129 | |
| 1940s | 402 | |
| 1950s | 575 | |
| 1960s | 1,358 | |
| 1970s | 1,435 | |
| 1980s | 532 | |
| 1990s | 638 | |
| 2000s | 501 | |
| 2010s | 497 | |
| 2020s | 426 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Josette was the 417th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Josette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Evettepeak 1967
- Annmariepeak 1969
- Dinapeak 1969
- Marlopeak 1970
- Elkepeak 1968
- Marniepeak 1969
- Corettapeak 1968
- Mishellepeak 1969
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.