# Yosef (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yosef/  
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 | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,612 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,612 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 614, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yoséf), equivalent to Joseph.

## 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 | 301 | 753 |
| 2012 | 346 | 689 |
| 2013 | 356 | 678 |
| 2014 | 362 | 691 |
| 2015 | 353 | 709 |
| 2016 | 370 | 680 |
| 2017 | 377 | 674 |
| 2018 | 356 | 686 |
| 2019 | 394 | 668 |
| 2020 | 379 | 679 |
| 2021 | 410 | 663 |
| 2022 | 421 | 655 |
| 2023 | 454 | 618 |
| 2024 | 470 | 606 |
| 2025 | 413 | 665 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 29 | 977 |
| 2013 | 32 | 910 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,223 |
| 2015 | 28 | 1,024 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 28 | 1,042 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 32 | 908 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,184 |
| 2022 | 26 | 1,084 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,162 |
| 2025 | 29 | 1,035 |

## People named Yosef

- Yosef Tunkel, Belarusian-American Yiddish-language poet and satirist
- Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Belarusian rabbi (1820–1892)
- Yosef Ben-Jochannan, American historian and writer (1918-2015)
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and theologian (1903–1993)
- Joseph Hertz, British rabbi and biblical scholar, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom (1872-1946)

## 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.