Josep
About 155 American babies have been named Josep since 1935, most of them around 2011. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 140 Joseps are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Josep
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 155
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 5,200th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1935
How old the living Joseps are
born that year still alive today
Of the 155 babies given the name since 1935, about 140 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Joseps
- Josep Borrell (born 1947)Catalan-Spanish diplomat and politician
- Josep Pla (1897–1981)Spanish journalist
- Josep Maria Bartomeu (born 1963)Spanish entrepreneur, and a former president of FC Barcelona
- Josep Samitier (1902–1972)Spanish football player and manager
- Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867–1956)Catalan architect
- Josep Maria Fusté (1941–2023)Spanish footballer
- Josep Comas i Solà (1868–1937)Catalan astronomer
- Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983)architect
People named Josep with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Josep peaked:
Josep elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Josep | 6 | 4,812th |
| France boys | Josep | 5 | 4,150th |
| Poland boys | Josep | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Josep among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Josep | 8 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Josep lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 40,371 men called Josep were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Josep | 6,710 | 16.116 | 3 |
| Lleida | Josep | 3,703 | 15.728 | 5 |
| Tarragona | Josep | 3,716 | 8.477 | 15 |
| Barcelona | Josep | 20,460 | 7.015 | 20 |
| Balears, Illes | Josep | 1,604 | 2.576 | 67 |
| Valencia/València | Josep | 2,800 | 2.070 | 80 |
Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Josep against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.