Josimar
Josimar is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Josimar
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Josimar is a name with a single cultural origin: Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
The Story of Josimar
Josimar first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1986, with 10 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1986: 10 births, good for #4,130 nationwide. About 36% of every Josimar on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Josimar last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 97 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Josimar
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Josimar. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Josemar
- José Maria
- Zé Maria
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About the name Josimar
Josimar is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1986 and has accumulated 97 births in the dataset. Josimar's peak popularity came in 1986 when it ranked #4,130. Use the chart and map above to compare Josimar's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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