Gender:
Origin:
Hebrew
11915 famous people named Joseph found on Wikipedia.
2612848 male, 10653 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
23-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
5-th in year 1917
Used in: Biblical, English, French, German
A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “increaser.”.
Joseph is a masculine given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yossef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. The name can be translated from Hebrew יוסף יהוה yosef YHWH as signifying "Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add".
The name appears in the book of Genesis: Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben-Yaakov.
In the New Testament there are two others named Joseph: 1) Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus; and, 2) Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus who supplied the tomb in which Jesus was buried.
The form "Joseph" is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. In Persian the name is called "yousef" or "یوسف" . In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelled يوسف or Yūsuf. The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and Joseph was one of the two names, along with Robert, to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century.
Masc. proper name, biblical son of Jacob and Rachel, and in the New Testament the name of the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus; from Late Latin Joseph, Josephus, from Greek Ioseph, from Hebrew Yoseph (also Yehoseph; see Psalms lxxxi.6) "adds, increases," causative of yasaph "he added." Its use in names of clothing and plants often is in reference to his "coat of many colors" (Genesis xxxvii.3).
Origin comes from the Hebrew: Yosef or Yusef, he will enlarge, he will add.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Stalin | 1879 | General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 2 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 1981 | American actor, director, producer, and writer |
| 3 | Tyler Joseph | 1988 | American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| 4 | Joseph Goebbels | 1897 | Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister |
| 5 | Joseph Fiennes | 1970 | English film and stage actor |
| 6 | Joseph McCarthy | 1908 | Wisconsin politician |
| 7 | Joseph Merrick | 1862 | English man with severe deformities |
| 8 | Joseph Smith | 1805 | American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement |
| 9 | Joseph Morgan | 1981 | Actor |
| 10 | Joseph Kony | 1961 | Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army |
| 11 | Joseph Schooling | 1995 | Singaporean swimmer |
| 12 | Joseph Duffy | 1988 | Irish mixed martial artist |
| 13 | Joseph Haydn | 1732 | Austrian composer |
| 14 | Max Joseph | 1982 | American film director, film producer and film editor |
| 15 | Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons | 1964 | Minister and rapper: member of Run-D.M.C. |
| 16 | Joseph Campbell | 1904 | American mythologist, writer and lecturer |
| 17 | Joseph Sikora | 1976 | American actor |
| 18 | Joseph Conrad | 1857 | Polish-British writer |
| 19 | Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | 1888 | American businessman and ambassador |
| 20 | Joseph Parker | 1992 | New Zealand boxer |
| 21 | Joseph P. Kennedy II | 1952 | American businessman |
| 22 | Joseph D. Pistone | 1939 | FBI agent |
| 23 | Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. | 1955 | United States Marine Corps General |
| 24 | Lesley Joseph | 1945 | English actress and broadcaster |
| 25 | Joseph Mazzello | 1983 | American actor |
| 26 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | 1943 | American economist and professor, born 1943. |
| 27 | Cory Joseph | 1991 | Canadian basketball player |
| 28 | Joseph Prince | 1963 | Singaporean evangelist |
| 29 | Joseph Christopher | 1955 | American serial killer |
| 30 | Joseph Marcell | 1948 | British actor |
| 31 | Joseph Cotten | 1905 | American film, stage and television actor |
| 32 | Joseph II | 1741 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| 33 | Joseph Schumpeter | 1883 | Austrian economist |
| 34 | Joseph Priestley | 1733 | English theologian, chemist, educator, and political theorist |
| 35 | Joseph Kabila | 1971 | President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 36 | Joseph Barbera | 1911 | American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist |
| 37 | Joseph Estrada | 1937 | The 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 until 2001. |
| 38 | Joseph Benavidez | 1984 | American martial artist |
| 39 | Chief Joseph | 1840 | Nez Percé Chieftain |
| 40 | Joseph | Biblical character, son of Jacob | |
| 41 | Joseph Williams | 1960 | American musician |
| 42 | Joseph of Arimathea | 0100 | Disciple of Jesus, donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus |
| 43 | Joseph Bloore | 1789 | Canadian businessman |
| 44 | Joseph Wapner | 1919 | Television judge, recipient of the Purple Heart medal |
| 45 | Joseph P. Kennedy | 1915 | Junior officer in the United States Navy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy |
| 46 | Joseph Mascolo | 1929 | American actor |
| 47 | Paterson Joseph | 1964 | British actor |
| 48 | Joseph Bonanno | 1905 | Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family |
| 49 | Joseph Pulitzer | 1847 | Hungarian-American Jewish newspaper publisher |
| 50 | Joseph Bonaparte | 1768 | Elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 51 | Joseph M'Barek | 1986 | German actor |
| 52 | Vance Joseph | 1972 | American football coach and former player |
| 53 | Joseph Mawle | 1974 | British actor |
| 54 | Joseph Garrett | English YouTube presenter | |
| 55 | Jeethu Joseph | 1972 | Indian film director |
| 56 | Joseph E. Duncan III | 1963 | American serial killer |
| 57 | Joseph Votel | 1958 | United States general |
| 58 | Joseph Druce | 1965 | American murderer |
| 59 | Joseph Paul Franklin | 1950 | American serial killer |
| 60 | Joseph Kahn | 1972 | American film director |
| 61 | Joseph Warren | 1741 | American doctor |
| 62 | Joseph Massino | 1943 | American mobster |
| 63 | Joseph Bishara | 1970 | American composer |
| 64 | Joseph E. Johnston | 1807 | Confederate Army general |
| 65 | Joseph Minala | 1996 | Cameroonian footballer |
| 66 | Joseph Heller | 1923 | American author |
| 67 | Joseph Beuys | 1921 | German visual artist |
| 68 | Joseph Mercola | 1954 | American alternative medicine proponent |
| 69 | Joseph in Islam | Islamic view of Joseph | |
| 70 | Joseph Fourier | 1768 | French mathematician and physicist |
| 71 | Joseph Broussard | 1702 | Leader of the Acadian people in Acadia |
| 72 | Joseph Hooker | 1814 | Union Army general |
| 73 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1909 | American film director, screenwriter, and producer |
| 74 | Joseph Lau | 1951 | Hong Kong businessman |
| 75 | Joseph Colombo | 1923 | American mobster |
| 76 | Joseph Konopka | 1976 | American terrorist |
| 77 | Joseph Randle | 1991 | American football player |
| 78 | Joseph Brant | 1742 | Mowhawk leader |
| 79 | Joseph Kittinger | 1928 | American military pilot |
| 80 | Joseph L. Galloway | 1941 | American newspaper correspondent and columnist |
| 81 | Nafisa Joseph | 1978 | Model, television personality |
| 82 | Joseph Brodsky | 1940 | Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate |
| 83 | Joseph Chamberlain | 1836 | British businessman, politician, and statesman |
| 84 | Joseph Stilwell | 1883 | United States Army general |
| 85 | Joseph Pilates | 1883 | German inventor of pilates |
| 86 | Joseph Ducreux | 1735 | French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver |
| 87 | Joseph Cornell | 1903 | American artist |
| 88 | Joseph Valachi | 1903 | American mobster |
| 89 | Jude Anthany Joseph | 1983 | Indian film director |
| 90 | Joseph C. Wilson | 1949 | American ambassador |
| 91 | Joseph Bologna | 1934 | American actor |
| 92 | Joseph Millson | 1974 | English actor and singer |
| 93 | Joseph Cross | 1986 | American actor |
| 94 | Joseph Addison | 1672 | Politician, writer and playwright |
| 95 | Joseph Joffre | 1852 | French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I |
| 96 | Joseph Banks | 1743 | English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences |
| 97 | Peter Joseph | 1978 | Filmmaker and social activist |
| 98 | Joseph Muscat | 1974 | Prime Minister of Malta |
| 99 | Joseph Swan | 1828 | British physicist and inventor |
| 100 | Joseph Wiseman | 1918 | Canadian actor |
| 101 | Joseph Bell | 1837 | British academic |
| 102 | Jackie Joseph | 1934 | American actress |
| 103 | Joseph C. Phillips | 1962 | American actor |
| 104 | Joseph N. Welch | 1890 | American actor |
| 105 | Joseph Plunkett | 1887 | Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader |
| 106 | Joseph Gatt | 1974 | Actor, model |
| 107 | Joseph Campanella | 1924 | American actor |
| 108 | Joseph Kosinski | 1974 | American film director, screenwriter |
| 109 | Joseph M. Juran | 1904 | Quality guru |
| 110 | Joseph Wheeler | 1836 | Confederate Army general |
| 111 | Joseph Shea | ||
| 112 | Jonathan Joseph | 1991 | English rugby union player |
| 113 | Joseph Addai | 1983 | Player of American football |
| 114 | Joseph Kearns | 1907 | American actor |
| 115 | Joseph Marco | 1988 | Filipino actor |
| 116 | Joseph Hannesschläger | 1962 | German actor |
| 117 | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778 | French chemist and physicist |
| 118 | Joseph Eichler | 1900 | American architect |
| 119 | Joseph Yobo | 1980 | Nigerian footballer |
| 120 | Curtis Joseph | 1967 | Ice hockey player |
| 121 | Joseph Nye | 1937 | American political scientist |
| 122 | Joseph Cinqué | 1815 | Leader of La Amistad slave revolt |
| 123 | Joseph de Maistre | 1753 | Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat |
| 124 | Joseph Henry | 1797 | American scientist |
| 125 | Karl Joseph | 1993 | |
| 126 | Joseph Murphy | 1898 | American writer |
| 127 | Joseph Julian Soria | 1986 | American actor |
| 128 | Kimberley Joseph | 1973 | Australian film director |
| 129 | Mang0 | 1991 | American electronic sports player |
| 130 | Joseph Bazalgette | 1819 | 19th-century English civil engineer |
| 131 | Joseph Force Crater | 1889 | Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court |
| 132 | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | 1678 | Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 till his death in 1711 |
| 133 | Joseph Franklin Rutherford | 1869 | American judge |
| 134 | Joseph Corré | 1967 | British businessman |
| 135 | Joseph Aiuppa | 1907 | Mobster |
| 136 | Joseph of Cupertino | 1603 | Italian Conventual Franciscan friar |
| 137 | Joseph Boyden | 1966 | Canadian writer |
| 138 | Joseph Alliluyev | 1945 | Russian cardiologist and a grandson of Joseph Stalin |
| 139 | Joseph Jenkins Roberts | 1809 | President of Liberia |
| 140 | Joseph R. Gannascoli | 1959 | American actor |
| 141 | Joseph Clancy | 1956 | United States Secret Service agent |
| 142 | Willson Joseph | 1984 | Indian actor, Malayalam actor |
| 143 | Joseph Delaney | 1945 | British writer |
| 144 | Joseph Abboud | 1950 | Fashion designer |
| 145 | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | 1827 | British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer |
| 146 | Joseph Beyrle | 1923 | Recipient of the Purple Heart medal |
| 147 | John Joseph | 1962 | American singer |
| 148 | Joseph Story | 1779 | US Supreme Court justice |
| 149 | Joseph Valtellini | 1985 | Canadian kickboxer |
| 150 | Joseph A. Bennett | 1968 | English actor |
| 151 | Basil Joseph | 1990 | |
| 152 | Joseph Needham | 1900 | British biochemist |
| 153 | Joseph Grimaldi | 1778 | English actor, comedian and dancer |
| 154 | Joseph Brooks | 1938 | American director and composer |
| 155 | Joseph Hazelwood | 1946 | Captain of Exxon Valdez during its 1989 oil spill |
| 156 | Joseph G. LaPointe, Jr. | 1948 | United States Army Medal of Honor recipient |
| 157 | Joseph Wright of Derby | 1734 | English painter |
| 158 | Joseph F. Smith | 1838 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| 159 | Joseph Hill | 1949 | Singer and songwriter for the reggae group Culture |
| 160 | Linval Joseph | 1988 | Player of American football |
| 161 | Joseph Ayo Babalola | 1904 | Nigerian clergyman |
| 162 | Amin Joseph | 1980 | American Actor |
| 163 | Joseph Safra | 1939 | Brazilian banker |
| 164 | Joseph McFadden | 1975 | British actor |
| 165 | Joseph Whitworth | 1803 | English engineer, entrepreneur |
| 166 | Johnathan Joseph | 1984 | Player of American football |
| 167 | Joseph von Fraunhofer | 1787 | German optical physicist |
| 168 | Joseph D. Reitman | 1968 | American actor |
| 169 | Joseph Kasa-Vubu | 1910 | President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 170 | Joseph Wambaugh | 1937 | Writer |
| 171 | Joseph Fouché | 1759 | French statesman |
| 172 | Joseph Tsai | 1964 | Businessman |
| 173 | Joseph Kushner | 1922 | |
| 174 | Joseph Maroon | 1940 | American neurosurgeon |
| 175 | Joseph Roth | 1894 | Austrian novelist and journalist |
| 176 | Joseph Black | 1728 | British chemist |
| 177 | Joseph Marie Jacquard | 1752 | French inventor |
| 178 | Josephine Joseph | 1913 | Austrian-born film and sideshow performer |
| 179 | Joseph Stephen Crane | 1916 | American actor |
| 180 | Joseph R. Swedish | American businessman | |
| 181 | Joseph Paxton | 1803 | English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament |
| 182 | Joseph Anderson | 1988 | American football player |
| 183 | Joseph Dalton Hooker | 1817 | British botanist |
| 184 | Joseph Vaz | 1651 | Indian presbyter |
| 185 | Joseph Hilbe | 1944 | American statistician |
| 186 | Joseph May | 1974 | British actor |
| 187 | Joseph Lombardo | 1929 | American mobster |
| 188 | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz | 1766 | Czech nobleman and Austrian general |
| 189 | Joseph Schildkraut | 1896 | Actor |
| 190 | Joseph Forte | 1981 | American basketball player |
| 191 | Joseph Clement Coll | 1881 | American artist |
| 192 | Joseph Gurney Cannon | 1836 | American politician |
| 193 | Keith Joseph | 1918 | British barrister and politician |
| 194 | Joseph Medill Patterson Albright | 1937 | Former husband of Madeleine Albright and scion of a media empire |
| 195 | Joseph Crowley | 1962 | American politician |
| 196 | Joseph Fauria | 1990 | American football player |
| 197 | Joseph Cassano | 1955 | American businessman |
| 198 | Joseph Smith III | 1832 | American religious leader |
| 199 | Joseph Sweeney | 1884 | American actor |
| 200 | Joseph Rotblat | 1908 | Polish-born British-naturalised physicist |