How rare is the name Jozef?

3,764 people in the United States have the first name Jozef, about 1 in 80,242. It ranks #4,800 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JOZEF

#4,800

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,764
About
1 in 80,242
This common or more
84.5%
Who bears it

Of the 3,764 people named Jozef, 91.2% reported their origin as White, 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 1.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jozef peaked in 2005, when 57 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19142025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
57
In 2025*
17 ▼70%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 1,201 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jozef by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #5,371. The largest share of babies named Jozef, 42.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#5,37160
1920s#9,76523
1960s#15,8207
1970s#11,63853
1980s#8,815122
1990s#7,171237
2000s#6,858348
2010s#9,290242
2020s#10,970109
Greatest Generation 1901–276.9%
Generation X 1965–806.2%
Millennials 1981–9621.6%
Generation Z 1997–1242.5%
2013 and later22.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Jozef

1 other first name also has 3,764 people.

#4,800 Nalani · 3,764

Either side of Jozef

#4,796 Surinder · 3,768#4,799 Bodie · 3,767#4,800 Nalani · 3,764#4,802 Vi · 3,761

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jozef, most common first.

#2,516 Josef · 9,669#16,502 Jozsef · 682#19,105 Jozefa · 559

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