Joseph
946
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 6.19k
-5%
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 Joseph
Joseph peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (6,193 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 946 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Joseph reached its peak in 1996, when 6,193 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #8 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 946 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 102,259 boys have been officially registered with the name Joseph in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 19,995 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3,041 in 2014 and ending at 946 in 2024.