Josef
#2,833 for boys in 2025, 44 births
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 170 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,158since 1900
Josef over time
Rank among boys' names. Josef has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,833 | 44 |
| 2024 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #1,809 | 84 |
| 2017 | #1,829 | 81 |
| 2016 | #1,694 | 92 |
| 2015 | #1,703 | 91 |
| 2014 | #1,447 | 113 |
| 2013 | #1,500 | 108 |
| 2012 | #1,626 | 95 |
| 2011 | #1,257 | 137 |
| 2010 | #1,323 | 129 |
| 2009 | #1,367 | 125 |
| 2008 | #1,146 | 158 |
| 2007 | #1,102 | 165 |
| 2006 | #974 | 191 |
| 2005 | #844 | 218 |
| 2004 | #917 | 185 |
| 2003 | #893 | 188 |
| 2002 | #848 | 195 |
| 2001 | #796 | 211 |
| 2000 | #813 | 198 |
| 1999 | #737 | 220 |
| 1998 | #758 | 211 |
| 1997 | #799 | 183 |
| 1996 | #821 | 175 |
| 1995 | #827 | 168 |
| 1994 | #790 | 179 |
| 1993 | #810 | 170 |
| 1992 | #825 | 163 |
| 1991 | #833 | 154 |
| 1990 | #786 | 166 |
| 1989 | #795 | 156 |
| 1988 | #705 | 177 |
| 1987 | #712 | 164 |
| 1986 | #718 | 159 |
| 1985 | #678 | 172 |
| 1984 | #663 | 170 |
| 1983 | #758 | 130 |
| 1982 | #713 | 149 |
| 1981 | #760 | 131 |
| 1980 | #708 | 151 |
| 1979 | #673 | 161 |
| 1978 | #760 | 123 |
| 1977 | #783 | 119 |
| 1976 | #850 | 96 |
| 1975 | #805 | 107 |
| 1974 | #903 | 80 |
| 1973 | #904 | 78 |
| 1972 | #894 | 80 |
| 1971 | #864 | 89 |
| 1970 | #835 | 93 |
| 1969 | #951 | 65 |
| 1968 | #856 | 72 |
| 1967 | #1,165 | 41 |
| 1966 | #998 | 53 |
| 1965 | #912 | 66 |
| 1964 | #989 | 58 |
| 1963 | #1,027 | 54 |
| 1962 | #1,215 | 41 |
| 1961 | #1,097 | 51 |
| 1960 | #1,058 | 53 |
| 1959 | #1,280 | 37 |
| 1958 | #1,148 | 45 |
| 1957 | #1,090 | 49 |
| 1956 | #1,193 | 41 |
| 1955 | #1,219 | 38 |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 32 |
| 1953 | #1,508 | 25 |
| 1952 | #1,406 | 29 |
| 1951 | #1,643 | 21 |
| 1950 | #1,746 | 18 |
| 1949 | #1,544 | 23 |
| 1948 | #1,703 | 19 |
| 1947 | #1,646 | 21 |
| 1946 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | #1,494 | 20 |
| 1944 | #1,988 | 13 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #1,537 | 21 |
| 1941 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | #1,894 | 14 |
| 1939 | #1,958 | 13 |
| 1938 | #1,521 | 20 |
| 1937 | #2,088 | 12 |
| 1936 | #1,801 | 15 |
| 1935 | #1,929 | 14 |
| 1934 | #1,783 | 16 |
| 1933 | #2,542 | 9 |
| 1932 | #2,638 | 9 |
| 1931 | #2,101 | 13 |
| 1930 | #2,079 | 14 |
| 1929 | #2,002 | 15 |
| 1928 | #1,647 | 21 |
| 1927 | #2,034 | 16 |
| 1926 | #1,720 | 20 |
| 1925 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1924 | #1,727 | 21 |
| 1923 | #2,446 | 12 |
| 1922 | #2,240 | 14 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #1,966 | 17 |
| 1919 | #1,481 | 24 |
| 1918 | #2,165 | 14 |
| 1917 | #1,528 | 22 |
| 1916 | #1,265 | 28 |
| 1915 | #1,372 | 24 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #1,205 | 18 |
| 1912 | #1,417 | 12 |
| 1911 | #1,290 | 8 |
| 1910 | #1,045 | 10 |
| 1909 | #893 | 11 |
| 1908 | #1,373 | 5 |
| 1907 | #1,094 | 7 |
| 1906 | #1,004 | 7 |
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| 1901 | #858 | 7 |
| 1900 | #1,162 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Josef! It came in at #1,162, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1902–1905, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Josef is popular in 1966
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#668 · 1 in 15,882
- New York#854 · 1 in 26,181
- California#924 · 1 in 27,617
Best ever in a state: #221 in Oregon, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #668 | 6 | 1 in 15,882 |
| New York | #854 | 6 | 1 in 26,181 |
| California | #924 | 6 | 1 in 27,617 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Josef
- 572 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #2,833)
- 720 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,833)
- 1,130 spots since 2015 (#1,703 → #2,833)
- Biggest jump: 480 spots in 1909 (#1,373 → #893)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1967 (#998 → #1,165)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1984 at #663 (170 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1968–2006
- Highest: 1 in 8,728 boys born in 1999 were named Josef (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 38,820 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #663 in 1984, was only 1 in 10,617 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.0% of all boys named Josef (1,834) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 43 | #858 (1901) | #1,064 |
| 1910s | 173 | #1,045 (1910) | #1,454 |
| 1920s | 162 | #1,647 (1928) | #2,111 |
| 1930s | 135 | #1,521 (1938) | #2,044 |
| 1940s | 172 | #1,494 (1945) | #1,792 |
| 1950s | 335 | #1,090 (1957) | #1,357 |
| 1960s | 554 | #856 (1968) | #1,027 |
| 1970s | 1,026 | #673 (1979) | #827 |
| 1980s | 1,559 | #663 (1984) | #721 |
| 1990s | 1,789 | #737 (1999) | #799 |
| 2000s | 1,834 | #796 (2001) | #970 |
| 2010s | 1,011 | #1,257 (2011) | #1,604 |
| 2020s | 365 | #2,040 (2021) | #2,319 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Josef in 1966
Top boys' names in 1966
More about 1966
boys
1,783,461 boys got a published name in 1966; 1 in 33,650 of them was named Josef, which outranked 78.0% of the 4,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).