Yosef
#663 for boys in 2025, 413 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 470 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,612since 1951
Yosef over time
Rank among boys' names. Yosef has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #663 | 413 |
| 2024 | #606 | 470 |
| 2023 | #617 | 454 |
| 2022 | #654 | 421 |
| 2021 | #660 | 410 |
| 2020 | #678 | 379 |
| 2019 | #667 | 394 |
| 2018 | #685 | 356 |
| 2017 | #670 | 377 |
| 2016 | #680 | 370 |
| 2015 | #708 | 353 |
| 2014 | #690 | 362 |
| 2013 | #676 | 356 |
| 2012 | #683 | 346 |
| 2011 | #752 | 301 |
| 2010 | #773 | 287 |
| 2009 | #749 | 306 |
| 2008 | #882 | 238 |
| 2007 | #820 | 261 |
| 2006 | #857 | 234 |
| 2005 | #778 | 253 |
| 2004 | #835 | 213 |
| 2003 | #921 | 179 |
| 2002 | #830 | 201 |
| 2001 | #936 | 166 |
| 2000 | #1,021 | 143 |
| 1999 | #855 | 177 |
| 1998 | #1,032 | 131 |
| 1997 | #1,167 | 104 |
| 1996 | #1,093 | 110 |
| 1995 | #1,151 | 99 |
| 1994 | #1,013 | 120 |
| 1993 | #992 | 120 |
| 1992 | #1,142 | 93 |
| 1991 | #1,088 | 100 |
| 1990 | #1,102 | 94 |
| 1989 | #980 | 108 |
| 1988 | #1,032 | 91 |
| 1987 | #1,062 | 81 |
| 1986 | #1,075 | 75 |
| 1985 | #1,043 | 78 |
| 1984 | #1,084 | 68 |
| 1983 | #1,095 | 66 |
| 1982 | #1,563 | 39 |
| 1981 | #1,199 | 58 |
| 1980 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | #1,370 | 46 |
| 1978 | #1,272 | 50 |
| 1977 | #1,356 | 45 |
| 1976 | #1,427 | 39 |
| 1975 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,790 | 26 |
| 1973 | #1,400 | 36 |
| 1972 | #1,566 | 30 |
| 1971 | #1,823 | 24 |
| 1970 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #1,810 | 21 |
| 1968 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #3,041 | 8 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,423 | 12 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yosef! It came in at #3,364, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yosef
- 57 spots since 2024 (#606 → #663)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#678 → #663)
- 45 spots since 2015 (#708 → #663)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1999 (#1,032 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 2000 (#855 → #1,021)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2024 at #606 (470 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,666 boys born in 2024 were named Yosef (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,136 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 33.0% of all boys named Yosef (3,502) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 72 | #2,506 (1958) | #2,994 |
| 1960s | 91 | #1,810 (1969) | #2,855 |
| 1970s | 351 | #1,272 (1978) | #1,570 |
| 1980s | 707 | #980 (1989) | #1,158 |
| 1990s | 1,148 | #855 (1999) | #1,064 |
| 2000s | 2,194 | #749 (2009) | #863 |
| 2010s | 3,502 | #667 (2019) | #698 |
| 2020s | 2,547 | #606 (2024) | #646 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yosef in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 32,837 of them was named Yosef, which outranked 81.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,258Reginal51
- #1,258Ronnell51
- #1,258Samual51
- #1,272Yosef50
- #1,272Cade50
- #1,272Conan50
- #1,272Corwin50
- #1,286Armond49
- #1,286Artis49
- #1,286Bartholomew49
Tied with 13 names at #1,272; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.