How popular is “Josephus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josephus” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josephus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josephus” 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
1882	6	0.000027084	6	-100%
1883	5	0.000023047	5	-100%
1884	5	0.000020537	5	-100%
1885	6	0.000024911	6	-100%
1886	6	0.0000235	6	-100%
1889	7	0.000024226	7	-100%
1890	6	0.000019907	6	-100%
1895	5	0.000014244	5	-100%
1897	8	0.000023058	8	-100%
1898	5	0.000013108	5	-100%
1904	5	0.000012392	5	-100%
1908	7	0.000014325	7	-100%
1909	6	0.000011737	6	-100%
1910	9	0.000015236	9	-100%
1911	6	0.000009313	6	-100%
1913	13	0.000011432	13	-100%
1914	10	0.00000706	10	-100%
1915	26	0.000014189	26	-100%
1916	19	0.000009822	19	-100%
1917	22	0.000010963	22	-100%
1918	15	0.000006909	15	-100%
1919	23	0.000010899	23	-100%
1920	20	0.000008839	20	-100%
1921	21	0.000008995	21	-100%
1922	22	0.000009611	22	-100%
1923	28	0.000012161	28	-100%
1924	24	0.000010077	24	-100%
1925	19	0.000008143	19	-100%
1926	17	0.000007404	17	-100%
1927	19	0.000008192	19	-100%
1928	22	0.00000973	22	-100%
1929	14	0.000006386	14	-100%
1930	17	0.000007646	17	-100%
1931	19	0.000009029	19	-100%
1932	11	0.00000521	11	-100%
1933	19	0.000009503	19	-100%
1934	20	0.00000963	20	-100%
1935	8	0.000003828	8	-100%
1936	16	0.000007701	16	-100%
1937	12	0.000005632	12	-100%
1938	18	0.000008135	18	-100%
1939	16	0.000007261	16	-100%
1940	19	0.000008251	19	-100%
1941	12	0.000004925	12	-100%
1942	16	0.000005857	16	-100%
1943	14	0.00000496	14	-100%
1944	16	0.000005948	16	-100%
1945	16	0.000006031	16	-100%
1946	12	0.000003756	12	-100%
1947	12	0.000003331	12	-100%
1948	15	0.000004345	15	-100%
1949	25	0.000007174	25	-100%
1950	22	0.00000628	22	-100%
1951	18	0.000004886	18	-100%
1952	19	0.000005003	19	-100%
1953	18	0.000004671	18	-100%
1954	13	0.000003266	13	-100%
1955	15	0.000003736	15	-100%
1956	10	0.000002425	10	-100%
1957	10	0.00000238	10	-100%
1958	9	0.000002177	9	-100%
1959	6	0.000001443	6	-100%
1960	15	0.000003611	15	-100%
1961	11	0.000002656	11	-100%
1962	10	0.000002478	10	-100%
1963	13	0.000003284	13	-100%
1964	5	0.000001286	5	-100%
1965	7	0.000001931	7	-100%
1966	13	0.00000374	13	-100%
1967	5	0.000001473	5	-100%
1968	6	0.000001776	6	-100%
1969	9	0.00000259	9	-100%
1970	10	0.000002773	10	-100%
1971	8	0.000002331	8	-100%
1972	9	0.000002864	9	-100%
1973	9	0.000002983	9	-100%
1974	8	0.000002632	8	-100%
1975	10	0.000003312	10	-100%
1976	14	0.000004614	14	-100%
1977	9	0.000002833	9	-100%
1978	6	0.00000189	6	-100%
1979	6	0.000001803	6	-100%
1980	11	0.000003193	11	-100%
1981	9	0.000002602	9	-100%
1982	13	0.000003706	13	-100%
1983	12	0.000003465	12	-100%
1985	8	0.000002241	8	-100%
1988	6	0.000001624	6	-100%
1990	11	0.000002783	11	-100%
1991	6	0.00000154	6	-100%
1992	7	0.000001822	7	-100%
1993	5	0.000001326	5	-100%
1994	7	0.000001883	7	-100%
1995	5	0.000001365	5	-100%
1998	5	0.000001359	5	-100%
2001	5	0.000001336	5	-100%
2002	5	0.000001338	5	-100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6	-100%
2008	5	0.000001272	5	-100%
2011	7	0.000001914	7	-100%
2017	5	0.000001398	5	-100%
2021	6	0.000001771	6	-100%
2023	5	0.00000151	5	-100%

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