Yosef: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced YOH-suhf · 2 syllables

Borrowed from Hebrew (yosef), equivalent to Joseph.

How popular is Yosef?

Yosef was the #663 name in the US in 2025, given to 413 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Yosef in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Country	Rank
United States	#663
Norway	#417

Half of US adults named Yosef are older than 28; most are between 18 and 53. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Yosef have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Yosef is pronounced YOH-suhf.

Yosef was the #663 name in the US in 2025, given to 413 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Yosef are older than 28. Most are between 18 and 53.