Jozef

maleStatistical record

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

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

Jozef: Recorded since 1949, it reached #195 in 1958, and it stood at #785 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
73times a registrar ranked it
76years from first to last
#195highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#914
1998	#958
1999	#1027
2000	#953
2001	#1202
2002	#1190
2003	#1092
2004	#1160
2005	#1135
2006	#1168
2007	#1169
2008	#1124
2009	#1749
2010	#1109
2011	#1447
2012	#1051
2013	#1183
2014	#1421
2015	#1121
2016	#1022
2017	#1289
2018	#1061
2019	#1986
2020	#1192
2021	#1391
2022	#1314
2023	#1407
2024	#1758

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 38 of the 71 years from 1949 to 2019.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1949–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1949
First recorded at #327 among boys in Norway in 1949 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1949–2019
Highest recorded position: #195 among boys in Norway, in 1958 (recorded 1949–2019).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1758 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jozef appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 38 years beginning in 1949, and has registered 446 births with the name.

Jozef across 3 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.

Jozef'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
Norway · Boys	#327 (1949)	#195 (1958)	#505 (2019)	38 of 71	446 (1949–2019)	21 (1962)
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#914 (1997)	#1758 (2024)	29 of 29	524 (1996–2024)	28 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#720 (2010)	#660 (2023)	#785 (2024)	6 of 15	19 (2010–2024)	4 (2023)

Jozef by decade in Norway · 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 Jozef in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	6	1 of 10	6
1950s	83	6 of 10	14
1960sbusiest	170	10 of 10	17
1970s	119	10 of 10	12
1980s	56	8 of 10	7
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Jozef 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 1949 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #195 in Norway in 1958.

Jozef'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	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1407	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1192	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1022	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1121	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1447	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1168	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1092	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1190	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#953	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#505	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#585	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#627	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#625	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#535	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#623	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#582	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#552	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#416	10	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#330	13	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#469	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#467	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#339	13	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#400	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#512	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#526	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#321	14	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#254	20	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#331	13	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#325	13	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#280	16	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#418	8	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#267	15	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#227	21	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#267	15	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#244	18	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#238	17	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#209	21	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#208	21	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#216	18	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#232	16	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#215	17	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#195	20	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#324	8	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#206	19	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#272	10	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#280	9	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#327	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
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 1949 and 2024, ranked in 66 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #195, first reached in 1958.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 61 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.

Joy · #62, 68y
Joyce · #144, 62y
Joziah · #1935, 18y
Juan · #209, 75y

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.

Stephan · #196, 64y
Abdirahman · #188, 65y
Moira · #209, 61y
Bogdan · #212, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anne-Mette · #195, 39y
Lauritz · #195, 40y
Fanny · #194, 48y
Gun · #196, 28y

Jozef was ranked #195 in Norway · Boys in 1958. 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.

Jozef 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 Jozef without appearing here.

Jozef moved ahead of

Grant Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1986 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1192 and #3334.
Keith Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1986 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1192 and #3334.
Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1135 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1168 and #2538.
Johannes Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1986 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1192 and #2404.

Moved ahead of Jozef

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1407 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1132.
Mathias Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1183 and #1247 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1421 and #889.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1092 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1160 and #731.
Theodor Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1183 and #1339 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1421 and #1012.

Moved the opposite way to Jozef

Andreas Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 while Andreas went from #143 to #61.
Christian Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 while Christian went from #188 to #108.
Daniel Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 while Daniel went from #259 to #33.
David Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 while David went from #165 to #67.

Moved the same way as Jozef

Arild Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 and Arild from #22 to #452.
Arne Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 and Arne from #6 to #213.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 and Bjørn from #4 to #87.
Egil Compare
Between 1949 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Jozef went from #327 to #505 and Egil from #31 to #423.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1949 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #195 in Norway in 1958. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jozef

Jozef at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jozef across 3 official records

Jozef by decade in Norway · Boys

Jozef appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Jozef

Jozef and the names beside it

Jozef moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jozef

Moved the opposite way to Jozef

Moved the same way as Jozef

Jozef at a glance

Jozef across 3 official records

Jozef by decade in Norway · Boys

Jozef appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Jozef

Jozef and the names beside it

Jozef moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jozef

Moved the opposite way to Jozef

Moved the same way as Jozef