Joseph

Joseph is the 283rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 108,935 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,744.

By the numbers

People: 108,935
Rank: 283rd
How common: 1 in 2,744
Per 100,000: 36.5

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Ioseph, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף; a son of Jacob.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Joseph described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 55.5%
White, not Hispanic 24.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 12.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Joseph

James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)English mathematician
Tyler Joseph (born 1988)American singer, rapper and record producer
Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760–1836)Austrian marshal
Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736–1818)French noble
Claude Josephformer Acting President of Haiti
Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776–1847)archduke of Austria
Cory Joseph (born 1991)Canadian basketball player
Aubrey Joseph (born 1997)American actor and rapper

People named Joseph with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Joseph

Also a first name

Joseph has been given to 2,680,213 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.