Jozef
Jozef was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,491 among boys’ names; 1,201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Jozef and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jozef by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jozef mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Jozef is “a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph”
Inherited from Middle Dutch joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus, from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוֹסֵף.
/ˈjoː.zəf/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jozef?
#5,491 among boys’ names, 2025
Jozef fell from #3,826 in 2015 to #5,491 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 10.0 per million.
57 babies in 2005, the peak
Jozef peaked in 2005, when 57 boys were given it, #2,144 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,491 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,328 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,697 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,617 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,227 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,617 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,879 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,831 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,661 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,858 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,826 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,839 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,616 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,418 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,044 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,759 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,190 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,915 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,213 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,002 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,144 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,403 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,959 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,105 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,957 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,944 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,977 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,745 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,857 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,197 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,969 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,982 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,897 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,444 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,534 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,539 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,151 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,023 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,739 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,752 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,917 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,881 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,147 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,402 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,328 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,175 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,686 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,413 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,324 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,881 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,465 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,742 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,667 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,401 | 4.0 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,380 | 7.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,702 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,353 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,431 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,116 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,847 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,055 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,228 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,362 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jozef a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jozef has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jozef: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jozef, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,201 Americans ever recorded as Jozef. The median Jozef alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,764 people named Jozef (8 women and girls, 3,756 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 994 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 248 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 502 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 272 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,313 babies since 1880, Jozef is the most given (91% of them).
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 Jozef
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Jozef and names like it
- Compare Jozef and JozephBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJozef peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jozef since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Jozef: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jozef.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jozef alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.