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Josip

Boys' name

Form of Joseph

Josip has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1981, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Josip, 2017

1 in 596,000

Josip over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josip: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joseph

Hebrew

What Josip means

Josip is a form of Joseph.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Josip is used in Croatian and Slovene.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjo.sip/ for Josip.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Josip is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Josip comes through Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ and Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph, Josif and Jusuf.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Josip is pronounced /jǒsip/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Josip between 1972 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,327 in 1981.

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 Josip?

Josip had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josip 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josip. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josips were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josip was born before 1989 — so the typical Josip is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
109
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Choose a decade

1980s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Josip 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 1981 (9)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,327
1981

Spellings of Josip

Josip is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 76.0% against Josip's <0.01%.

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 Josip is used

Across 1910–2025, Josip was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Josip has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Josip around the world

Where Josip 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.

  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    1972–1977
    #2,087
    in 1977
  • Canada
    1992–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Josip 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
#4,327
1981
Peak year
1981
9 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Josip

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

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Sibling names for Josip

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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