Johnjoseph — boys' name
207 babies named Johnjoseph in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Johnjoseph was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Johnjoseph in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Johnjoseph
The Social Security Administration has registered 207 babies named Johnjoseph between 1979 and 2022, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Johnjoseph currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Johnjoseph performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Johnjoseph shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Johnjoseph in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Johnjoseph in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 207 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Johnjoseph at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Johnjoseph popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1979
- Peak year (1998)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 44 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
207 total births across 44 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 13 births in a single year.
Johnjoseph by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 89 births that decade — 43% of Johnjoseph's all-time total
Johnjoseph decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 51 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Johnjoseph's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Johnjoseph by state
Where Johnjoseph concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 18 | 8.7% |
18 of 207 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 8.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.