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How popular is “Joesph” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joesph” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joesph” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joesph” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joesph” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joesph” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joesph” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joesph” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1895 9 0.00002564 9 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 -100%
1900 18 0.000039977 18 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 -100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 -100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 -100%
1911 19 0.00002949 19 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 56 0.000049248 56 -100%
1914 77 0.000054365 77 -100%
1915 85 0.000046387 85 -100%
1916 94 0.000048593 94 -100%
1917 105 0.000052323 105 -100%
1918 117 0.000053889 117 -100%
1919 104 0.000049283 104 -100%
1920 115 0.000050826 115 -100%
1921 115 0.000049261 115 -100%
1922 121 0.000052858 121 -100%
1923 125 0.000054289 125 -100%
1924 126 0.000052905 126 -100%
1925 122 0.000052286 122 -100%
1926 134 0.000058365 134 -100%
1927 131 0.000056481 131 -100%
1928 127 0.000056171 127 -100%
1929 121 0.000055197 121 -100%
1930 104 0.000046778 104 -100%
1931 101 0.000047995 101 -100%
1932 96 0.00004547 96 -100%
1933 79 0.000039511 79 -100%
1934 84 0.000040447 84 -100%
1935 90 0.000043064 90 -100%
1936 86 0.000041394 86 -100%
1937 88 0.000041302 88 -100%
1938 80 0.000036157 80 -100%
1939 99 0.00004493 99 -100%
1940 106 0.000046033 106 -100%
1941 114 0.00004679 114 -100%
1942 110 0.000040266 110 -100%
1943 127 0.000044995 127 -100%
1944 120 0.000044608 120 -100%
1945 102 0.000038448 102 -100%
1946 128 0.000040059 128 -100%
1947 177 0.000049135 177 -100%
1948 166 0.000048081 166 -100%
1949 177 0.000050792 177 -100%
1950 191 0.000054519 191 -100%
1951 201 0.000054564 201 -100%
1952 212 0.000055819 212 -100%
1953 247 0.000064095 247 -100%
1954 279 0.000070088 279 -100%
1955 305 0.000075964 305 -100%
1956 262 0.000063545 262 -100%
1957 320 0.000076152 320 -100%
1958 281 0.000067974 281 -100%
1959 249 0.000059885 249 -100%
1960 263 0.000063315 263 -100%
1961 278 0.000067112 278 -100%
1962 257 0.000063687 257 -100%
1963 272 0.000068718 272 -100%
1964 266 0.000068423 266 -100%
1965 220 0.000060682 220 -100%
1966 218 0.000062722 5 213 -95%
1967 181 0.000053315 181 -100%
1968 191 0.000056535 7 184 -93%
1969 179 0.000051506 179 -100%
1970 227 0.000062942 227 -100%
1971 211 0.000061474 211 -100%
1972 211 0.000067133 211 -100%
1973 206 0.000068282 206 -100%
1974 217 0.000071382 217 -100%
1975 246 0.000081473 246 -100%
1976 248 0.000081732 248 -100%
1977 261 0.000082166 261 -100%
1978 256 0.000080659 256 -100%
1979 254 0.000076345 254 -100%
1980 250 0.000072579 250 -100%
1981 256 0.000074002 256 -100%
1982 250 0.000071266 250 -100%
1983 212 0.000061213 212 -100%
1984 219 0.000062773 219 -100%
1985 200 0.000056036 200 -100%
1986 170 0.000047792 170 -100%
1987 161 0.000044653 161 -100%
1988 169 0.000045737 169 -100%
1989 125 0.000032514 125 -100%
1990 96 0.000024289 96 -100%
1991 101 0.000025929 101 -100%
1992 93 0.000024211 93 -100%
1993 89 0.000023606 89 -100%
1994 80 0.000021519 80 -100%
1995 98 0.00002676 98 -100%
1996 81 0.000022209 81 -100%
1997 76 0.000020961 76 -100%
1998 83 0.000022565 83 -100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 -100%
2000 79 0.0000209 79 -100%
2001 82 0.000021905 82 -100%
2002 70 0.000018725 70 -100%
2003 70 0.00001841 70 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 86 0.000022368 86 -100%
2006 84 0.000021233 84 -100%
2007 75 0.000018761 75 -100%
2008 61 0.000015519 61 -100%
2009 73 0.000019109 73 -100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 -100%
2011 46 0.000012576 46 -100%
2012 56 0.000015312 56 -100%
2013 38 0.000010423 38 -100%
2014 36 0.000009713 36 -100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 -100%
2016 28 0.000007632 28 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 -100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 -100%
2021 18 0.000005313 18 -100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 -100%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 -100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 -100%

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