Joss — #6566 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Joss

The Social Security Administration has registered 428 babies named Joss between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Joss currently holds the #6566 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Joss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 250 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Joss performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 151 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Joss shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Joss in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Joss 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 428 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.