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Joseph

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1985 · #756
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:7,223 in 2024 (#32)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Joseph in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1985 with 227 babies, ranked #756.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 10,706 girls have been named Joseph since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Joseph per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 1,823 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Silent: 1,641 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,600 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,358 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,275 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 557 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 139 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yoséf, literally “(God) shall add”); a son of Jacob. Doublet of Yusuf. Noun sense 1 (“one whose chastity is above temptation”) is a reference to the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Genesis 39.

  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Joseph, CC BY-SA 4.0.