Jozef
Jozef is a boy's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 2,129th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 1,100 Jozefs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jozef
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,201
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 2,129th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,399th
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Jozefs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,201 babies given the name since 1914, about 1,100 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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 Jozefs
- Józef Piłsudski (1867–1935)Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister
- Józef Gosławski (1908–1963)Polish sculptor and medallic artist
- Jozef Tiso (1887–1947)Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
- Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813)nephew of King of Poland Stanislaus II; Marshal of France
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861)Slovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)Polish novelist
- Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776–1853)Polish philosopher
- Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911–1989)Polish politician
People named Jozef with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jozef is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jozef is most concentrated in Michigan (6.5×), California (3.6×), Illinois (2.7×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Jozef peaked:
Jozef elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Józef +1 spelling | 7,073 birth registrations | 53rd |
| England and Wales boys | Jozef | 543 | 1,022nd |
| Norway boys | Jozef | 446 | 207th |
| France boys | Jozef | 135 | 483rd |
| Belgium boys | Jozef | 94 | 688th |
| Ireland boys | Jozef | 19 | 660th |
| Scotland boys | Jozef | 10 | 599th |
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.
Jozef: rank by region
In 2025, Jozef was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jozef | 914 | 5 |
In 2025, Jozef was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Józef | 50 | 39 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Józef | 63 | 17 |
| Lubelskie | Józef | 51 | 21 |
| Lubuskie | Józef | 57 | 10 |
| Łódzkie | Józef | 47 | 35 |
| Małopolskie | Józef | 45 | 68 |
| Mazowieckie | Józef | 36 | 145 |
| Opolskie | Józef | 53 | 11 |
| Podkarpackie | Józef | 56 | 22 |
| Podlaskie | Józef | 36 | 25 |
| Pomorskie | Józef | 40 | 52 |
| Śląskie | Józef | 51 | 55 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Józef | 50 | 10 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Józef | 47 | 18 |
| Wielkopolskie | Józef | 37 | 71 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Józef | 70 | 13 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jozef 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jozef | 13,031 | 67,289 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jozef | — | 2,060 |
| Finland boys | Jozef +1 spelling | — | 16 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,060 who carry it, fewer than five go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Related names
Jozef 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.