Jospeh
#9,278 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jospeh has been given to 1,527 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #9,278 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Jospeh, 2025
1 in 414,000
Jospeh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jospeh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,278
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jospeh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jospeh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jospehs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jospeh was born before 1986 — so the typical Jospeh is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 34.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,413
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (527).
Is Jospeh 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
- +3,722
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 10.1%
- Peak was 1988 (79)
- Years since peak
- 37
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jospeh
Jospeh is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 74.6% against Jospeh's 0.04%.
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 Jospeh is used
Across 1910–2025, Jospeh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 372,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Massachusetts1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 8Ohio1 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. Jospeh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jospeh around the world
Where Jospeh 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.
- Ireland2000–2000#312in 2000
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Jospeh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jospeh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jospeh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.