About the name Josep
Josep belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Josep first appears in Social Security records in 1935. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #3415 in 1958, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 155 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.