Giuseppe
Giuseppe was given to 122 boys in 2025, #1,459 among boys’ names; 6,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,700 Americans named Giuseppe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 14 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Giuseppe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Giuseppe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Giuseppe is “a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Joseph.”
Borrowed from Italian Giuseppe.
/dʒəˈsɛpi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Giuseppe?
#1,459 among boys’ names, 2025
Giuseppe rose from #1,484 in 2015 to #1,459 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 58.4 to 71.4 per million.
130 babies in 1975, the peak
Giuseppe peaked in 1975, when 130 boys were given it, #726 among boys’ names. The 122 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,459 | 71.4 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,691 | 57.5 |
| 2023 | 113 | #1,552 | 66.1 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,709 | 56.7 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,616 | 60.0 |
| 2020 | 92 | #1,697 | 53.3 |
| 2019 | 86 | #1,796 | 47.9 |
| 2018 | 98 | #1,650 | 54.0 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,519 | 58.9 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,436 | 63.8 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,484 | 58.4 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,369 | 65.1 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,485 | 58.2 |
| 2012 | 89 | #1,701 | 46.9 |
| 2011 | 94 | #1,621 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 99 | #1,590 | 51.6 |
| 2009 | 91 | #1,711 | 45.9 |
| 2008 | 99 | #1,597 | 48.5 |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,460 | 53.0 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,503 | 49.1 |
| 2005 | 95 | #1,508 | 47.6 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,286 | 58.4 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,375 | 49.6 |
| 2002 | 83 | #1,506 | 42.8 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,256 | 54.6 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,390 | 45.8 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,300 | 48.4 |
| 1998 | 73 | #1,503 | 38.2 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,265 | 48.3 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,372 | 41.2 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,219 | 47.3 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,253 | 44.5 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,116 | 51.5 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,196 | 43.6 |
| 1991 | 86 | #1,192 | 42.6 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,154 | 42.8 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,114 | 45.0 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,120 | 41.8 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,057 | 43.9 |
| 1986 | 89 | #973 | 48.3 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,068 | 40.6 |
| 1984 | 92 | #921 | 51.0 |
| 1983 | 92 | #922 | 51.3 |
| 1982 | 103 | #880 | 56.8 |
| 1981 | 106 | #860 | 59.2 |
| 1980 | 92 | #930 | 51.6 |
| 1979 | 96 | #892 | 55.8 |
| 1978 | 112 | #806 | 68.2 |
| 1977 | 104 | #838 | 63.3 |
| 1976 | 122 | #754 | 77.8 |
| 1975 | 130 | #726 | 83.3 |
| 1974 | 112 | #766 | 71.2 |
| 1973 | 92 | #830 | 59.0 |
| 1972 | 107 | #773 | 66.0 |
| 1971 | 93 | #846 | 52.6 |
| 1970 | 85 | #879 | 45.7 |
| 1969 | 92 | #806 | 51.4 |
| 1968 | 73 | #854 | 42.0 |
| 1967 | 60 | #938 | 34.4 |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,010 | 29.2 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,134 | 23.7 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,224 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 34 | #1,343 | 16.7 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,375 | 16.0 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,026 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,001 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,578 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,415 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,361 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,862 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,069 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,031 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,569 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,942 | 2.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,725 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,440 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,953 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,992 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,226 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,086 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,202 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,786 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,231 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,650 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,720 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,056 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,390 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,009 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,917 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,547 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,676 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,609 | 22.7 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,432 | 27.0 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,430 | 27.1 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,635 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,531 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,072 | 44.2 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,006 | 53.1 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,071 | 51.5 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,469 | 32.4 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,310 | 37.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Giuseppe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Giuseppe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Giuseppe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Giuseppe, and how old are they?
5,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 6,365 Americans ever recorded as Giuseppe. The median Giuseppe alive today is 29 years old; half are between 14 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 10,160 people named Giuseppe (26 women and girls, 10,134 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,188 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 152 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,380 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Giuseppe born?
The states with the most babies named Giuseppe are New York, New Jersey and Illinois, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,989 | #701 | 4.5× |
| New Jersey | 686 | #501 | 3.7× |
| Illinois | 429 | #1,066 | 1.4× |
| California | 412 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 304 | #872 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 223 | #1,168 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 184 | #1,219 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 182 | #825 | 1.2× |
| Connecticut | 173 | #411 | 2.3× |
| Ohio | 29 | #822 | 0.1× |
Where Giuseppe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Giuseppe is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Giuseppe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Giuseppe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Giuseppe and names like it
- Compare Giuseppe and FrancescoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sGiuseppe peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Giuseppe since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Giuseppe: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Giuseppe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Giuseppe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.