# Jozef (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jozef/  
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 | 1,201 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,201 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 543, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 4,046 |
| 2012 | 32 | 3,421 |
| 2013 | 29 | 3,618 |
| 2014 | 27 | 3,842 |
| 2015 | 28 | 3,827 |
| 2016 | 20 | 4,860 |
| 2017 | 21 | 4,665 |
| 2018 | 20 | 4,835 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,883 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,621 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,232 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,621 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,702 |
| 2024 | 18 | 5,332 |
| 2025 | 17 | 5,493 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,447 |
| 2012 | 26 | 1,051 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,421 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,121 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,289 |
| 2018 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 22 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,314 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,406 |

## People named Jozef

- Pavel Jozef Šafařík, Czech and Slovak poet, linguist, literary historian (1795–1861)
- Józef Glemp, Catholic cardinal, Primate of Poland (1981–2009)
- Jozef Israëls, Dutch painter (1824-1911)
- Jozef Gabčík, Czechoslovak soldier (1912–1942)
- Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak parliament, track a
- Jozef Chovanec, Czech footballer (born 1960)
- Józef Lange, cyclist (1897-1972)
- Józef Kowalczyk, Archbishop of Gniezno, primate of Poland
- Jozef-Ernest van Roey, Belgium Roman Catholic archbishop (1874–1961)
- Jozef Móder, association football player (born 1947)
- Jozef Čapkovič, Czechoslovak soccer player
- Jozef Golonka, Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach

## 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.