Joseh
Joseh was last recorded in 1987, when 10 babies were given it; 143 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joseh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joseh?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,404, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1986, the peak
Joseh peaked in 1986, when 22 boys were given it, #2,466 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 10 | #4,404 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,466 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,141 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,182 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,835 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,192 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,725 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,697 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,344 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #4,375 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,659 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,108 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,462 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,340 | 3.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,422 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,095 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joseh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joseh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joseh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joseh, and how old are they?
An estimated 131 Americans named Joseh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 41 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 529 people named Joseh (5 women and girls, 524 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 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).
How common is the spelling Joseh?
Joseh is a less common spelling of Jose: SSA has recorded 143 Joseh and 596,732 Jose since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 805,854 babies since 1880, Joseh is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 10,238 babies recorded by SSA was a Joseh (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joseh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Christoher | 1,094 | |
| Chirstopher | 1,051 | |
| Christpher | 1,304 |
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 Joseh and names like it
- Compare Joseh and JoseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJoseh peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joseh since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Joseh.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Joseh alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.