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Jozef

#5,491 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Joseph

Jozef has been given to 1,201 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,491 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Jozef, 2025

1 in 195,000

Jozef over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jozef: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Joseph

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jozef means

Jozef is a English equivalent of Joseph.

Origin, language, and formation

Jozef is used in Albanian, Dutch and Slovak.

Jozef comes through Latin Iōsēphus, Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ and Hebrew יוֹסֵף.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joseph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Jozef is pronounced /joːzɛf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,201 boys were recorded with the name Jozef between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,116 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,617 in 2020 to #5,491 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,826 in 2015 to #5,491 in 2025.

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 Jozef?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,491
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jozef 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jozef. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jozefs were born

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

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,118
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Choose a decade

2000s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (348).

Is Jozef 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
−163
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−874
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,665
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.8%
Peak was 2005 (57)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,116
1918

Spellings of Jozef

Jozef is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 42.1% against Jozef's 0.09%.

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 Jozef is used

Across 1910–2025, Jozef was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 352,327 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Jozef has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jozef around the world

Where Jozef 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2010–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1924–2021
    #5,389
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #488
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jozef by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,491
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 874
Best rank ever
#2,116
1918
Peak year
2005
57 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,201
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Jozef

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

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Sibling names for Jozef

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