# Josip (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/josip/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 109 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 109 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | 5,102 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,216 |
| 1981 | 9 | 4,329 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,840 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,312 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,432 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,733 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,029 |
| 1999 | 7 | 8,282 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,250 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,205 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,322 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,401 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,188 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,438 |

## People named Josip

- Josip Jelačić, Austrian general (1801-1859)
- Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
- Josip Pivarić, Croatian association football player
- Josip Stanišić, Croatian association football player (born 2000)
- Josip Brekalo, Croatian association football player
- Josip Juranović, Croatian association football player
- Josip Bozanić, Croatian cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb
- Josip Skoblar, Croatian football player and manager
- Josip Šutalo, Croation association football player
- Josip Belušić, Croatian inventor
- Josip Kuže, Croatian association football player and manager (1952–2013)
- Josip Skoko, Australian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.