How popular is “Josef” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josef” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Josef” 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 “Josef” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josef” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josef” 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	Males	Bias toward female
1900	6	0.000013326	6	-100%
1901	7	0.000020242	7	-100%
1906	7	0.000016338	7	-100%
1907	7	0.000015041	7	-100%
1908	5	0.000010232	5	-100%
1909	11	0.000021517	11	-100%
1910	10	0.000016929	10	-100%
1911	8	0.000012417	8	-100%
1912	12	0.000012145	12	-100%
1913	18	0.00001583	18	-100%
1914	13	0.000009179	13	-100%
1915	24	0.000013097	24	-100%
1916	28	0.000014475	28	-100%
1917	22	0.000010963	22	-100%
1918	14	0.000006448	14	-100%
1919	24	0.000011373	24	-100%
1920	17	0.000007513	17	-100%
1921	7	0.000002998	7	-100%
1922	14	0.000006116	14	-100%
1923	12	0.000005212	12	-100%
1924	21	0.000008818	21	-100%
1925	19	0.000008143	19	-100%
1926	20	0.000008711	20	-100%
1927	16	0.000006898	16	-100%
1928	21	0.000009288	21	-100%
1929	15	0.000006843	15	-100%
1930	14	0.000006297	14	-100%
1931	13	0.000006178	13	-100%
1932	9	0.000004263	9	-100%
1933	9	0.000004501	9	-100%
1934	16	0.000007704	16	-100%
1935	14	0.000006699	14	-100%
1936	15	0.00000722	15	-100%
1937	12	0.000005632	12	-100%
1938	20	0.000009039	20	-100%
1939	13	0.0000059	13	-100%
1940	14	0.00000608	14	-100%
1941	11	0.000004515	11	-100%
1942	21	0.000007687	21	-100%
1943	19	0.000006731	19	-100%
1944	13	0.000004833	13	-100%
1945	20	0.000007539	20	-100%
1946	11	0.000003443	11	-100%
1947	21	0.00000583	21	-100%
1948	19	0.000005503	19	-100%
1949	23	0.0000066	23	-100%
1950	18	0.000005138	18	-100%
1951	21	0.000005701	21	-100%
1952	29	0.000007636	29	-100%
1953	25	0.000006487	25	-100%
1954	32	0.000008039	32	-100%
1955	38	0.000009464	38	-100%
1956	41	0.000009944	41	-100%
1957	49	0.000011661	49	-100%
1958	45	0.000010886	45	-100%
1959	37	0.000008899	37	-100%
1960	53	0.000012759	53	-100%
1961	51	0.000012312	51	-100%
1962	41	0.00001016	41	-100%
1963	54	0.000013643	54	-100%
1964	58	0.000014919	58	-100%
1965	66	0.000018205	66	-100%
1966	53	0.000015249	53	-100%
1967	41	0.000012077	41	-100%
1968	73	0.000021608	73	-100%
1969	65	0.000018703	65	-100%
1970	93	0.000025787	93	-100%
1971	89	0.00002593	89	-100%
1972	80	0.000025453	80	-100%
1973	78	0.000025854	78	-100%
1974	80	0.000026316	80	-100%
1975	107	0.000035438	107	-100%
1976	96	0.000031638	96	-100%
1977	119	0.000037463	119	-100%
1978	123	0.000038754	123	-100%
1979	161	0.000048392	161	-100%
1980	151	0.000043838	151	-100%
1981	131	0.000037868	131	-100%
1982	149	0.000042475	149	-100%
1983	130	0.000037536	130	-100%
1984	170	0.000048728	170	-100%
1985	172	0.000048191	172	-100%
1986	159	0.0000447	159	-100%
1987	164	0.000045485	164	-100%
1988	177	0.000047902	177	-100%
1989	156	0.000040578	156	-100%
1990	165	0.000041746	165	-100%
1991	154	0.000039535	154	-100%
1992	163	0.000042434	163	-100%
1993	170	0.00004509	170	-100%
1994	179	0.000048149	179	-100%
1995	168	0.000045875	168	-100%
1996	175	0.000047982	175	-100%
1997	183	0.000050472	183	-100%
1998	211	0.000057365	211	-100%
1999	220	0.000059558	220	-100%
2000	198	0.000052382	198	-100%
2001	211	0.000056366	211	-100%
2002	195	0.000052163	195	-100%
2003	188	0.000049444	188	-100%
2004	185	0.000048418	185	-100%
2005	218	0.000056699	218	-100%
2006	191	0.000048279	191	-100%
2007	165	0.000041274	165	-100%
2008	157	0.000039942	157	-100%
2009	125	0.000032721	125	-100%
2010	129	0.000034905	129	-100%
2011	137	0.000037454	137	-100%
2012	95	0.000025975	95	-100%
2013	108	0.000029624	108	-100%
2014	113	0.000030488	113	-100%
2015	91	0.000024589	91	-100%
2016	92	0.000025077	92	-100%
2017	81	0.00002265	81	-100%
2018	84	0.000023891	84	-100%
2019	81	0.000023337	81	-100%
2020	66	0.000019757	66	-100%
2021	72	0.000021252	72	-100%
2022	59	0.000017439	59	-100%
2023	61	0.000018422	61	-100%
2024	62	0.000018627	62	-100%

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