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Giuseppe

#1,459 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Joseph

Giuseppe has been given to 6,365 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #1,459 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Giuseppe, 2025

1 in 27,200

Giuseppe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giuseppe: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joseph

Hebrew

What Giuseppe means

Giuseppe is a form of Joseph.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Giuseppe → Joseph. The family’s meaning is “(God) shall add”, recorded in English with the source elements Yoséf.

Origin, language, and formation

Giuseppe is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Giuseppe comes through Latin Iōsēphus, Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ and Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giuseppe is pronounced /d͡ʒuˈzɛp.pe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,365 boys were recorded with the name Giuseppe between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 1975; its best national rank was #726 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,697 in 2020 to #1,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,484 in 2015 to #1,459 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Giuseppe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,200
122 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,459
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,836 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giuseppe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giuseppe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giuseppes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giuseppe was born before 1993 — so the typical Giuseppe is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,011
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1970s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (1,053).

Is Giuseppe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+232
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+238
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+25
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 1975 (130)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#726
1975

Spellings of Giuseppe

Giuseppe is the most-used spelling, taking 91.7% of the 6,940 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Giuseppe is used

Across 2016–2025, Giuseppe was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 12,701 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,704
  2. 2New York1 in 4,167
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 5,556
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 10,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  7. 7Florida1 in 14,286
  8. 8Michigan1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Giuseppe around the world

Where Giuseppe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #288
    in 1975
  • Ireland
    2012–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1907–2025
    #1,501
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #754
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    1961–1970
    #96
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Giuseppe

People whose public names include Giuseppe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Giuseppe in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Giuseppe. Linked forms have their own page here.

JoseIosifJosefJosepJosifJosipJozefJusufYosefJosephGuiseppeZéJoepJoséJožeOsipOsypSeffHusiyJazepJožefJožkoJózefOssip

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Giuseppe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 238
Best rank ever
#726
1975
Peak year
1975
130 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,365
Count in 2025
122

Names similar to Giuseppe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GiulianoPhilippeGiulioGiulianGuiseppeGiulianiPhillippeGiuseppiJeanphilippe

Names with a curve like Giuseppe

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Giuseppe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FrancescoPauloAbdulRamseyMarcellShayBrandtDomenicoChristosLazaroRenatoRico

Sibling names for Giuseppe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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