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The name Joseph is of Hebrew origin, and means he shall add. The table below indicates the number of times the name Joseph has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Joseph**
Use of the Name Joseph for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
2,416,662	1,349,386	666,386	227,085	107,276	40,883	19,695

The table below indicates the number of times the name Joseph has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Joseph**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	7	2,633	562	10
1881	7	2,457	560	10
1882	7	2,671	854	6
1883	7	2,516	471	17
1884	7	2,708	766	9
1885	7	2,540	593	14
1886	7	2,594	863	8
1887	7	2,456	649	13
1888	7	2,993	603	18
1889	7	2,729
1890	7	2,670	853	11
1891	7	2,572	868	11
1892	7	3,064	847	13
1893	6	2,997	557	26
1894	6	2,978	730	17
1895	7	2,992	651	23
1896	6	3,052	645	24
1897	6	2,827	706	20
1898	6	3,173	686	23
1899	6	2,678	740	19
1900	7	3,717
1901	6	2,770	900	14
1902	7	3,099
1903	6	3,121
1904	7	3,292	864	18
1905	7	3,303	790	22
1906	7	3,523	810	21
1907	7	3,845
1908	6	4,158	865	21
1909	6	4,342	736	30
1910	6	5,226	801	29
1911	6	6,469	817	28
1912	5	12,050	752	45
1913	5	14,463	874	37
1914	5	18,831	696	69
1915	5	23,066	793	69
1916	5	23,889	783	77
1917	5	24,759	710	95
1918	7	26,285	752	90
1919	7	24,270	743	90
1920	7	25,584	689	112
1921	7	26,189	678	120
1922	7	25,713	716	104
1923	7	25,565	711	105
1924	7	25,414	640	138
1925	7	24,577	637	132
1926	8	23,744	552	163
1927	9	23,445	556	162
1928	9	22,278	516	181
1929	9	21,082	541	159
1930	9	20,963	568	144
1931	9	19,282	629	111
1932	9	18,524	660	104
1933	9	17,119	657	100
1934	10	17,083	720	86
1935	10	17,170	771	77
1936	11	17,440	812	69
1937	12	17,297	888	61
1938	12	17,728	811	76
1939	12	17,723	898	61
1940	12	18,209	894	64
1941	12	19,751	912	65
1942	11	22,457	882	78
1943	13	22,694	980	66
1944	13	21,106	850	80
1945	14	20,783	995	60
1946	14	24,202
1947	14	27,413
1948	13	26,737
1949	14	26,300
1950	13	27,013
1951	14	28,059
1952	12	28,524
1953	13	29,136
1954	13	31,194
1955	13	31,540
1956	12	32,679
1957	12	31,795
1958	12	30,046
1959	13	29,521
1960	12	29,732	969	122
1961	12	29,388
1962	13	30,071
1963	13	30,088	893	138
1964	11	30,539	965	120
1965	11	28,647	941	118
1966	15	26,960
1967	15	25,915	927	122
1968	16	25,371	891	134
1969	15	26,194	829	155
1970	16	26,699	929	138
1971	15	24,469	895	148
1972	12	22,437	964	126
1973	12	21,265	919	134
1974	12	21,826	991	123
1975	12	22,090	946	134
1976	12	24,022	923	141
1977	10	26,443	845	176
1978	10	26,642	828	180
1979	11	28,621	768	209
1980	10	30,124	761	218
1981	11	30,724	845	185
1982	11	30,997	814	194
1983	11	30,405	762	211
1984	10	30,475	763	212
1985	10	30,162	756	226
1986	12	28,777	800	209
1987	12	28,482	809	217
1988	12	28,938	931	181
1989	11	29,850
1990	10	30,076
1991	9	29,799
1992	11	27,849
1993	12	26,959
1994	11	25,684
1995	12	25,292
1996	12	24,696
1997	12	23,542
1998	11	23,126
1999	8	23,153
2000	8	22,734
2001	8	21,888
2002	7	21,771
2003	7	21,188
2004	9	19,695
Totals:		2,416,662		7,996

During the last 125 years, parents have used Joseph as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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