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Joseph
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒəʊzɪf/
Rank in 2024
#32
Born in 2024
7,223
Peak year
1956 · #12
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7,223 boys were named Joseph, about 1 in every 237.
- It peaked in 1956 with 32,748 babies, ranked #12.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 2,662,040 boys 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.
- 24.6Greatest1901–27
- 16.9Silent1928–45
- 14.8Boomers1946–64
- 15.0Gen X1965–80
- 15.1Millennials1981–96
- 9.7Gen Z1997–12
- 5.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 411,084 babies, 24.59 per 1,000. Silent: 349,316 babies, 16.91 per 1,000. Boomers: 554,950 babies, 14.78 per 1,000. Gen X: 408,139 babies, 15.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 459,961 babies, 15.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 304,379 babies, 9.70 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 115,205 babies, 5.30 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.