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Joselito

Boys' name

Diminutive of José

Joselito has been given to 742 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1973, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Joselito, 2012

1 in 457,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joselito: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of José

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joselito means

Joselito is a diminutive of José.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Joselito is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /xo.se.ˈli.to/ for Joselito.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Joselito → José → José → יוסף. The family’s meaning is “may he add”, recorded in Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include José.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Joselito is pronounced /xoseˈlito/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 742 boys were recorded with the name Joselito between 1961 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1973; its best national rank was #1,417 in 1973.

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 Joselito?

Joselito had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 237,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joselito 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 2012 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 316,907 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joselito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joselitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joselito was born before 1977 — so the typical Joselito is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
742
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Joselito 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (36)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,417
1973

Where Joselito is used

Across 1910–2025, Joselito was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 229,663 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 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. Joselito has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joselito around the world

Where Joselito 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.

  • France
    1954–2019
    #6,385
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joselito 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,417
1973
Peak year
1973
36 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
742
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joselito

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

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Sibling names for Joselito

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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