The JOSEPH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	80,030	356	0.03	297
United States (1880 census)	6,353	956	0.013	127
Change since 1880	+73677	+600	+0.017	+170
Other Countries
Australia	2,191	728	0.013	134
United Kingdom	7,187	868	0.016	156

Top States for JOSEPH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	13,419	93	0.084	840
New York	11,364	83	0.060	599
Louisiana	6,030	71	0.135	1,349
California	5,357	603	0.016	158
Texas	5,225	477	0.025	251
Top States for JOSEPH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	6,030	71	0.135	1,349
Florida	13,419	93	0.084	840
Delaware	483	213	0.062	616
New York	11,364	83	0.060	599
Massachusetts	3,325	212	0.052	524

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JOSEPH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JOSEPH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JOSEPH in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JOSEPH by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JOSEPH

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of JOSEPH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	872	1.09
Black/African American	39,087	48.84
White (Caucasian)	28,395	35.48
Asian/Pacific	5,530	6.91
Mixed Race	4,250	5.31
White (Hispanic)	1,897	2.37

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JOSEPH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JOSEPH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOSEPH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.