Yoseph is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Yosef, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yoseph: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,776 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,776 in 1986; #5,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yoseph in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,038 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #2,776.
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Yoseph: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,776 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 37 (2005).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Yoseph, making it the 5,038th most common boys’ name of the year, up 857 places from #5,895 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 16 boys named Yoseph in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,776, reached in 1986. The most boys given the name in a single year was 37, in 2005. For comparison, it was #3,876 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yoseph in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 958 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 284 babies named Yoseph.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US boys were named Yoseph; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yosef (10,612 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Yoseph 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 | — | — | 20 | #5,038 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,895 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,461 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,687 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,768 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,690 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,095 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,764 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,672 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,935 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,876 |
| 2014 | — | — | 31 | #3,530 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,748 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,802 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,883 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,808 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,330 |
| 2008 | — | — | 29 | #3,741 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,510 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,102 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,901 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,283 |
| 2003 | — | — | 26 | #3,526 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #4,042 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,317 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,418 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,983 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #4,015 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,452 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,183 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,301 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,592 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,498 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,457 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,226 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,402 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,615 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,521 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,197 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,776 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,328 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,547 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,902 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,230 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,498 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,517 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,753 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,328 |
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).