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Baby name
Jose
Boy
Origin of the name
José is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Joseph, from the Hebrew Yosef, “God will add.”
Classic name
592,512births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 30rank at its peak, in 2002
Where babies named Jose are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jose is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jose is most common in New Mexico (3.9 times), Texas (3.8) and Arizona (3.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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