Jose
Jose is ranked 91st among boys in 2024 (3,768 births). Its best rank was 28th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- #91up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,7680.22% of boys
- Peak year
- 200212,868 births
- Best rank
- #28in 2004
- Since 1880
- 592,999people given the name
The story in the numbers
588,779 boys have been named Jose in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 12,868 births — 0.66% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 76 → 91).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 20%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 62 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,220 girls have also been given it, 0.71% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jose | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 910 | |
| 1890s | 947 | |
| 1900s | 1,627 | |
| 1910s | 5,899 | |
| 1920s | 14,447 | |
| 1930s | 12,297 | |
| 1940s | 16,818 | |
| 1950s | 31,442 | |
| 1960s | 42,036 | |
| 1970s | 66,388 | |
| 1980s | 86,645 | |
| 1990s | 119,036 | |
| 2000s | 115,739 | |
| 2010s | 55,175 | |
| 2020s | 19,373 |
In 2002, its biggest year
Jose was the 30th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Jose
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Juanpeak 2005
- Franciscopeak 1993
- Albertopeak 1991
- Antoniopeak 1997
- Carlospeak 2001
- Guillermopeak 1998
- Ernestopeak 2003
- Enriquepeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.