Hosie
Hosie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 704th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192330 births
- Best rank
- #704in 1901
- Since 1882
- 1,231people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,231 boys have been named Hosie in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hosie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | |
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 73 | |
| 1910s | 167 | |
| 1920s | 221 | |
| 1930s | 201 | |
| 1940s | 184 | |
| 1950s | 151 | |
| 1960s | 88 | |
| 1970s | 63 | |
| 1980s | 22 | |
| 1990s | 16 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Hosie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Hosie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Curleypeak 1944
- Earliepeak 1922
- Williepeak 1947
- Aciepeak 1928
- Ewellpeak 1919
- Johniepeak 1920
- Frazierpeak 1919
- Cephuspeak 1922
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.