Josep

Boys' name

(God) shall add

Josep has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 2011, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Josep, 2024

1 in 557,000

Josep over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josep: meaning, origin, and history

(God) shall add

Hebrew

What Josep means

Josep means “(God) shall add”, associated with yôsēp̄.

Origin, language, and formation

Josep is used in Catalan and Old Galician-Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Josep is pronounced [ʒuˈze̞p].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 boys were recorded with the name Josep between 1935 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,414 in 1958.

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.

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How common is Josep?

Josep had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Josep 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josep. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joseps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josep was born before 2003 — so the typical Josep is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 61.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 149; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Josep 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: —; 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 2011 (17)
Years since peak: 14; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,414; 1958

Spellings of Josep

Josep is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 62.8% against Josep's <0.01%.

Joseph62.8%2,669,490
Jose13.9%592,512
Joe10.7%453,255
Joel6.6%279,655
Josue1.4%57,689
Joey1.3%53,758
Moses1.0%43,291
Jase0.56%23,905

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.

Josep around the world

Where Josep 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
2017–2019
#4,702
in 2019
France
2003–2003
#4,150
in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Josep 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: #3,414; 1958
Peak year: 2011; 17 that year
First recorded: 1935
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 155
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Josep

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

Josai Josuel Joseth Josie Josia Joseh Josean Josip Josian Joshu Joss Josohn Jossiel Josey Josyah Joson Josel Josiahs Josph Joshus Joshia Joshuan Josiel Jossiah

Sibling names for Josep

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

For a sister

Elin Lilyanna Samiyah Adelle Kamille Kyndall Lillianna Leigha

For a brother

Amare Semaj Giovani Xzavier Rylee Konnor Landry Giovanny

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