Josef
9
Babies in 2024
-55%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 96
+13%
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 Josef
Josef peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (96 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 9 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Josef reached its peak in 1999, when 96 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #283 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 9 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,379 boys have been officially registered with the name Josef in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 198 boys were registered with the name, starting from 20 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.