Jozsef
Jozsef is a name with a single cultural origin: Hungarian.
- Hungarian
Meaning & Origin of Jozsef
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jozsef is a name with a single cultural origin: Hungarian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hungarian
The Story of Jozsef
Jozsef first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1963, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2005: 12 births, good for #6,224 nationwide. About 27% of every Jozsef on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Jozsef last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 141 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Jozsef
Jozsef is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1963 and has accumulated 141 births in the dataset. Jozsef's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #6,224. Use the chart and map above to compare Jozsef's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.