Jozef
- #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 1918 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,201since 1914
Jozef over time
Rank among boys' names. Jozef has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #3,582 | 29 |
| 2012 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2011 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #2,879 | 41 |
| 2007 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #2,922 | 33 |
| 2002 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,017 | 13 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
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| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1919 | #2,385 | 12 |
| 1918 | #2,073 | 15 |
| 1917 | #2,732 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #2,271 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jozef! It came in at #2,271, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jozef is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- Not published
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- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
Best ever in a state: #659 in Michigan, 2001.
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| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
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See more about Jozef
- 158 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #5,399)
- 859 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #5,399)
- 1,624 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1918 at #2,073 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1921, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,040 boys born in 2005 were named Jozef (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,073 in 1918, was only 1 in 67,565 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.0% of all boys named Jozef (348) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 60 | #2,073 (1918) | #2,578 |
| 1920s | 23 | #3,208 (1920) | #3,328 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,231 (1967) | #3,231 |
| 1970s | 53 | #2,686 (1971) | #4,464 |
| 1980s | 122 | #2,824 (1984) | #3,728 |
| 1990s | 237 | #2,183 (1996) | #3,159 |
| 2000s | 348 | #2,129 (2005) | #3,052 |
| 2010s | 242 | #3,371 (2012) | #4,210 |
| 2020s | 109 | #4,540 (2020) | #5,230 |
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.
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