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Joeseph

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Joeseph has been given to 2,849 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Joeseph, 2023

1 in 474,000

Joeseph over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joeseph: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Hebrew origin

Hebrew

What Joeseph means

Joeseph is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Joeseph is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,849 boys were recorded with the name Joeseph between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1998; its best national rank was #704 in 1890.

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 Joeseph?

Joeseph had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joeseph 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 2023 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joeseph. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joesephs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joeseph was born before 1978 — so the typical Joeseph is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,100
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Joeseph 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (56)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#704
1890

Spellings of Joeseph

Joeseph is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 99.3% against Joeseph's 0.11%.

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 Joeseph is used

Across 1910–2025, Joeseph was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 269,697 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

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. Joeseph has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joeseph around the world

Where Joeseph 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
    1997–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #1,753
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    2002–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joeseph by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#704
1890
Peak year
1998
56 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,849
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joeseph

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

JoesiahJoephJoellJoelleJoesphJoeangelYosephJoeziahJoevonJoenathanJoeyJoedyAlephJoevanniJoevanyJoeanthonyJoevaniJhosephJohnjosephJoemarJozephJoevanJoequanJoerell

Names with a curve like Joeseph

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

DemetrioEsequielLauroClementeCeasarCecilioGerritJensBlasFerminFaustinoHilario

Sibling names for Joeseph

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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