girls:
4.2k births since 1891
#2648 (54th percentile)
boys:
584.9k births since 1880
#56 (99th percentile)
overall:
589.1k births since 1880
#103 (99th percentile)
The name Jose is the #103 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 589,144 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #56 (98.8% percentile) for all time with 584,930 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,648 (53.7% percentile) for all time with 4,214 births since 1891.
Jose has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1891 for girls).
The name Jose has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jose reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 96.8% percentile (ranked #28) with 5,767 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 6,226 births per million (ranked 96.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jose ranks #91 for boys (90.1% percentile) with 2,023 births per million, which is 32.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jose reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 12.5% percentile (ranked #754) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 55 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jose ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 8.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jose".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Jose. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.8% confident that Jose is pronounced as hoh-ZAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-zay, at 22.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like HH OW0 Z EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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