Jose

Where Jose comes from

From Spanish/Portuguese José, from Hebrew. Doublet of Joseph.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jose
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #161 among boys — 84 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1952
    Jose Advincula born
    Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
  3. 1992
    Jose Baxter born
    British footballer
  4. 2004
    Peak, #28
    12,187 babies named Jose — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #72.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Joseph, an anglicized spelling of Spanish José and Portuguese José.
  • A female given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Namesakes
  • Jose Advincula · Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal, born 1952
  • Jose Baxter · British footballer, born 1992
  • Jose Pablo Cantillo · American actor, born 1979
  • Jose W. Diokno · Filipino politician, 1922–1987
  • Jose Kaimlett · Indian catholic priest, 1941–2018

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.