Boys' name · since 1983
Joses
Joses has 33 recorded births since 1983 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2013 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 33
- total births
- 1983–2013
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 36%
- born in that decade
Joses sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 33 recorded since 1983.
Joses has 33 recorded births among boys since 1983, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1983 to 2013.
- 33 total births
- 1983–2013 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 36% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joses's 33 recorded births place it above 44% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joses's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Joses splits its recorded history at 2000: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1983 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2013 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Joses popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1983–2013
- Peak year (2013)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Joses by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Joses's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Joses births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
11 births
- 1990s
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 12 births (36% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1983–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joses: Baby Name Since 1983 - 33 Births, Peak 2013." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joses. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joses draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.