Meaning not yet researched.
Joesph: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #419 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #419 in 1955; #7,399 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joesph in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,399 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #419.
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Joesph: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #419 in 1955 · most boys in one year: 320 (1957).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Joesph, making it the 7,399th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,077 places from #6,322 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 boys named Joesph in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #419, reached in 1955. The most boys given the name in a single year was 320, in 1957. For comparison, it was #4,025 in 2015 and #488 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joesph in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 15,662 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,547 babies named Joesph.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US boys were named Joesph; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Josph and Josphe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Josph (343), Josphe (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Joesph in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,399 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,322 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,560 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,733 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,228 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,208 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,678 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,195 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,016 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,831 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,025 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,127 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,976 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,311 |
| 2011 | — | — | 46 | #2,649 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,107 |
| 2009 | — | — | 73 | #1,947 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,196 |
| 2007 | — | — | 75 | #1,904 |
| 2006 | — | — | 84 | #1,691 |
| 2005 | — | — | 86 | #1,599 |
| 2004 | — | — | 75 | #1,709 |
| 2003 | — | — | 70 | #1,742 |
| 2002 | — | — | 70 | #1,689 |
| 2001 | — | — | 82 | #1,489 |
| 2000 | — | — | 79 | #1,529 |
| 1999 | — | — | 88 | #1,360 |
| 1998 | — | — | 83 | #1,396 |
| 1997 | — | — | 76 | #1,431 |
| 1996 | — | — | 81 | #1,342 |
| 1995 | — | — | 98 | #1,165 |
| 1994 | — | — | 80 | #1,307 |
| 1993 | — | — | 89 | #1,190 |
| 1992 | — | — | 93 | #1,142 |
| 1991 | — | — | 101 | #1,086 |
| 1990 | — | — | 96 | #1,091 |
| 1989 | — | — | 125 | #909 |
| 1988 | — | — | 169 | #725 |
| 1987 | — | — | 161 | #722 |
| 1986 | — | — | 170 | #698 |
| 1985 | — | — | 200 | #620 |
| 1984 | — | — | 219 | #573 |
| 1983 | — | — | 212 | #581 |
| 1982 | — | — | 250 | #545 |
| 1981 | — | — | 256 | #526 |
| 1980 | — | — | 250 | #544 |
| 1979 | — | — | 254 | #532 |
| 1978 | — | — | 256 | #511 |
| 1977 | — | — | 261 | #507 |
| 1976 | — | — | 248 | #510 |
| 1975 | — | — | 246 | #512 |
| 1974 | — | — | 217 | #546 |
| 1973 | — | — | 206 | #549 |
| 1972 | — | — | 211 | #549 |
| 1971 | — | — | 211 | #558 |
| 1970 | — | — | 227 | #537 |
| 1969 | — | — | 179 | #582 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,879 | 184 | #560 |
| 1967 | — | — | 181 | #557 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,007 | 213 | #521 |
| 1965 | — | — | 220 | #515 |
| 1964 | — | — | 266 | #483 |
| 1963 | — | — | 272 | #485 |
| 1962 | — | — | 257 | #495 |
| 1961 | — | — | 278 | #480 |
| 1960 | — | — | 263 | #489 |
| 1959 | — | — | 249 | #497 |
| 1958 | — | — | 281 | #474 |
| 1957 | — | — | 320 | #435 |
| 1956 | — | — | 262 | #465 |
| 1955 | — | — | 305 | #419 |
| 1954 | — | — | 279 | #434 |
| 1953 | — | — | 247 | #456 |
| 1952 | — | — | 212 | #482 |
| 1951 | — | — | 201 | #478 |
| 1950 | — | — | 191 | #488 |
| 1949 | — | — | 177 | #499 |
| 1948 | — | — | 166 | #511 |
| 1947 | — | — | 177 | #505 |
| 1946 | — | — | 128 | #567 |
| 1945 | — | — | 102 | #601 |
| 1944 | — | — | 120 | #553 |
| 1943 | — | — | 127 | #562 |
| 1942 | — | — | 110 | #600 |
| 1941 | — | — | 114 | #565 |
| 1940 | — | — | 106 | #578 |
| 1939 | — | — | 99 | #578 |
| 1938 | — | — | 80 | #676 |
| 1937 | — | — | 88 | #620 |
| 1936 | — | — | 86 | #629 |
| 1935 | — | — | 90 | #620 |
| 1934 | — | — | 84 | #660 |
| 1933 | — | — | 79 | #660 |
| 1932 | — | — | 96 | #602 |
| 1931 | — | — | 101 | #582 |
| 1930 | — | — | 104 | #597 |
| 1929 | — | — | 121 | #532 |
| 1928 | — | — | 127 | #542 |
| 1927 | — | — | 131 | #538 |
| 1926 | — | — | 134 | #522 |
| 1925 | — | — | 122 | #560 |
| 1924 | — | — | 126 | #564 |
| 1923 | — | — | 125 | #555 |
| 1922 | — | — | 121 | #585 |
| 1921 | — | — | 115 | #593 |
| 1920 | — | — | 115 | #581 |
| 1919 | — | — | 104 | #590 |
| 1918 | — | — | 117 | #559 |
| 1917 | — | — | 105 | #577 |
| 1916 | — | — | 94 | #602 |
| 1915 | — | — | 85 | #631 |
| 1914 | — | — | 77 | #572 |
| 1913 | — | — | 56 | #589 |
| 1912 | — | — | 34 | #744 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #741 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #741 |
| 1909 | — | — | 10 | #984 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #903 |
| 1906 | — | — | 11 | #785 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #784 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #878 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #979 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #999 |
| 1900 | — | — | 18 | #593 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #824 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #940 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,179 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #767 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #970 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #661 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,079 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #929 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,110 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #874 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #638 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #799 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #942 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).