Joss

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Joss: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Joss: Recorded since 1990, it reached #280 in 2001, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
35years from first to last
#280highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#3197
2005	#2438
2006	#2137
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2012	#5876
2016	#4763
2018	#4684
2019	#4686
2020	#3117
2021	#3192
2023	#3218
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2010: #387 among boys in Northern Ireland, #1407 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1990–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1990
First recorded at #323 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1990 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2001–2010
Highest recorded position: #280 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 2001–2010).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Joss appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 576 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1990.

Joss across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Joss's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#458 (1996)	#458 (1996)	#2263 (2024)	29 of 29	576 (1996–2024)	41 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#3197 (2004)	#2137 (2006)	#3695 (2024)	13 of 21	75 (2004–2024)	10 (2006)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#280 (2001)	#280 (2001)	#387 (2010)	2 of 10	6 (2001–2010)	3 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#323 (1990)	#323 (1990)	#334 (1995)	2 of 6	6 (1990–1995)	3 (1990)

Joss by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Joss in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	125	4 of 10	31
2000sbusiest	229	10 of 10	23
2010s	138	10 of 10	14
2020s	84	5 of 10	17

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 23 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Joss appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #280 in Northern Ireland in 2001.

Joss's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1250	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1247	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#747	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#875	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#710	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#671	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#686	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#579	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#679	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#644	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#554	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#458	41	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#280	3	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1990 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #280, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Josue · #2023, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elis · #280, 30y
Clyde · #279, 33y
Daisie · #281, 29y
Harlee · #281, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Elis · #280, 30y
Isha · #280, 30y
Wilson · #280, 29y
Anna-Rose · #281, 22y

Joss was ranked #280 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Joss and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Joss without appearing here.

Joss moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #5493.
Kristine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4686 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Joss

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #1893.
Eabha Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2137 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #2338.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Francis Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #1863.

Moved the opposite way to Joss

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Joss

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Joss went from #458 to #2263 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1990 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #280 in Northern Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Joss

Joss at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Joss across 4 official records

Joss by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Joss appears in

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Joss across 4 official records

Joss by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Joss appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Joss

Joss and the names beside it

Joss moved ahead of

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