Oseph
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Oseph has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1987, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Oseph, 1988
1 in 308,000
Oseph 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Oseph?
Oseph had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1988
- 1 in 308,000
- 12 of 3,694,212 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 159,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1988
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 213,387 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Oseph sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 213,387 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oseph. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Osephs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Oseph was born before 1982 — so the typical Oseph is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 82.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 67
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Oseph 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (12)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.1% average annual change
Spellings of Oseph
Oseph is not the most common spelling — Joseph is, with 94.0% against Oseph's <0.01%.
Oseph by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Oseph
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Oseph
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.