Joseff
Joseff was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 102 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joseff by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joseff?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,260, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2003, the peak
Joseff peaked in 2003, when 9 boys were given it, #7,529 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #13,260 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,409 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,516 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,962 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,612 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,529 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,031 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,271 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,014 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,987 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #8,293 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,662 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,411 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,595 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,418 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,504 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joseff a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joseff has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joseff: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joseff, and how old are they?
An estimated 99 Americans named Joseff and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 162 people named Joseff (0 women and girls, 162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Joseff is a less common spelling of Joseph: SSA has recorded 102 Joseff and 2,680,213 Joseph since 1880.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joseff
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Zacary | 1,137 | |
| Jakeb | 1,170 | |
| Zakery | 1,339 | |
| Marcoantonio | 1,521 |
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.