boys:
1.2k births since 1882
#3396 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1882
#6529 (16th percentile)
The name Josephus is the #6,529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,211 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 15.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,396 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,211 births since 1882.
Josephus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for boys in 1882). Birth data for Josephus is available in 103 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Josephus reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #482) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 66 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Josephus ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josephus".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Josephus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.3% confident that Josephus is pronounced as joh-ZEH-fuhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-suh-fuhs, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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