Joseph

The name traces to the Hebrew Yosef, an ancient verbal form meaning 'may he add'. It crossed into English administrative records following the Norman Conquest and remained quietly persistent across four centuries of colonial settlement. By the opening of federal recordkeeping in 1880, it was already so thoroughly naturalized that it occupied a permanent place in the national top twenty.

A Joseph is rarely pictured under thirty without a clipboard or a folding chair nearby. The name reads as a man who owns a socket wrench set in its original metal box. With an average age of forty-six, holders divide evenly across three living adult generations. Recent tallies push it down to twenty-ninth place. An eighth-place all-time rank suggests it is simply pacing itself.