Jos
21
Babies in 2024
+600%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 29
+40%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Jos
Jos is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (21) are up 600% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Jos reached its peak in 2021, when 29 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,004 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 21 represents 72% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 255 boys have been officially registered with the name Jos in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 157 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3 in 2014 and ending at 21 in 2024.