Yosef — #610 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yosef

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,192 babies named Yosef between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yosef currently holds the #610 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 466 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yosef performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,501 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Yosef shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,955 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Yosef in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yosef 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 10,192 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.