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Baby name
Joseph
Boy
Origin of the name
Joseph comes from the Hebrew Yosef, “God will add,” through Latin. In the Gospels, it is the name of the husband of Mary.
Classic name
2,669,490births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 12rank at its peak, in 1956
Where babies named Joseph are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Joseph is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Joseph is most common in Rhode Island (2.2 times), New Jersey (1.9) and Pennsylvania (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Joeseph 2,849
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