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Baby name
Josef
Boy
Origin of the name
Josef is a form of Joseph, “God will add.”
Classic name
9,158births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 735rank at its peak, in 1999
Where babies named Josef are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Josef is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Josef is most common in New York (2.6 times), California (1.8) and Illinois (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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