How popular is the baby name Josef in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Josef.
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According to Statistics Faroe Islands, the most popular baby names last year in the Faroe Islands — the North Atlantic archipelago that belongs to Denmark — were Anna and Jónas.
Here are the Faroe Islands’ top 10+ girl names and top 10+ boy names of 2019:
Girl names
Anna, 9 baby girls
Eva, 7 (two-way tie)
Lea, 7 (two-way tie)
Maria, 6 (three-way tie)
Mia, 6 (three-way tie)
Vón, 6 (three-way tie)
Based on an Old Norse word meaning “hope.”
Alda, 5 (three-way tie)
Elsa, 5 (three-way tie)
Olivia, 5 (three-way tie)
Emma, 4 (three-way tie)
Liva, 4 (three-way tie)
Rósa, 4 (three-way tie)
Boy names
Jónas, 9 baby boys
Óðin, 8
Benjamin, 6 (three-way tie)
Magnus, 6 (three-way tie)
Rókur, 6 (three-way tie)
Based on an Old Norse name meaning “crow, rook.”
Adrian, 5 (four-way tie)
Baldur, 5 (four-way tie)
Boas, 5 (four-way tie)
Jósef, 5 (four-way tie)
Ari, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Bragi, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Based on an Old Norse word meaning “the best, foremost” or “poetry.” Also the Norse god of poetry.
Dávid, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Hugin, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Based on an Old Norse word meaning “mind, spirit, thought.”
Jákup, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Jóhan, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Jón, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Markus, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Milan, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Nóa, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Villiam, 4 (eleven-way tie)
Some of the other baby names bestowed in the Faroe Islands in 2019 include…
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 1, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 1-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “ones” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Taylor correspond to the numbers 20, 1, 25, 12, 15, and 18. The sum of these numbers is 91. The digits of 91 added together equal 10, and the digits of 10 added together equal 1 — the numerological value of Taylor.
Baby names with a value of 1
Below you’ll find the most popular 1-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
1 via 10
The letters in the following baby names add up to 10, which reduces to one (1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 10)
Boy name (1 via 10)
Eda, Dea, Ebba, Adda, Ade
Ade
1 via 19
The letters in the following baby names add up to 19, which reduces to one (1+9=10; 1+0=1).
Girl names (1 via 19)
Boy names (1 via 19)
Mae, Ema, Abbie, Alea, Aela
Adam, Jace, Dan, Jed, Jah
1 via 28
The letters in the following baby names add up to 28, which reduces to one (2+8=10; 1+0=1).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number one. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 1 being described as “leader,” “independent,” “determined,” “creative,” and “self-assured.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are a few things that are associated with the number 1:
Unity
Uniqueness
First place (as in sports)
Unicorn
Monolith
I kept the list short because you can associate the number 1 with just about anything. It’s universal, you might say. (See what I did there?)
What does the number 1 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
Right at the start of the Cold War, the curiously Russian-sounding name Miroslava debuted on the U.S. baby name charts:
1957: 10 baby girls named Miroslava (7 in Texas)
1956: 6 baby girls named Miroslava
1955: 16 baby girls named Miroslava (8 in Texas, 6 in New York)
1954: unlisted
1953: 6 baby girls named Miroslava
1952: 6 baby girls named Miroslava
1951: 5 baby girls named Miroslava [debut]
1950: unlisted
1949: unlisted
Where did it come from?
Czechoslovakian-born Mexican actress Miroslava Šternová, who gave Hollywood a shot in the early 1950s.
She was born in Prague in 1925. When the Germans overtook Czechoslovakia in 1939, her family (which was Jewish) fled. By 1941, they had resettled in Mexico.
Miroslava, billed mononymously, began appearing in Mexican films in the mid-1940s. She was introduced to American audiences in the matador movie The Brave Bulls (1951). Long before the movie came out, Miroslava appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine in July of 1950.
But her Hollywood career didn’t take off, perhaps due in part to her heavy accent. Her one other U.S. film was Stranger on Horseback, which was released in March of 1955 — a few weeks after Miroslava committed suicide at the age of 29.
The name Miroslava, used in various Slavic countries (including Russia), is made up of elements meaning “peace” and “glory.”
(Another Slavic feminine name that debuted on the U.S. charts during the Cold War? Svetlana, inspired by the daughter of Josef Stalin…)
The Russian name Svetlana, which is derived from the Slavic word svet, meaning “light,” debuted in the U.S. baby name data in 1967:
1969: unlisted
1968: 11 baby girls named Svetlana
1967: 10 baby girls named Svetlana [debut]
1966: unlisted
1965: unlisted
Why?
Because that was the year that Josef Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana, defected to the United States.
Her defection from the Soviet Union, which attracted worldwide attention, was the most high-profile defection since Rudolf Nureyev’s in 1961.
Weirdly, her name also led her to a marriage several years later:
The widow of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great architect, invited Svetlana to stay with her. She herself had had a daughter Svetlana, killed in a car crash. She felt a mystical connection to this new and famous Svetlana. Her own Svetlana had been married to Wesley Peters, the architect’s senior apprentice. Mrs. Wright wanted the new Svetlana to meet Peters and like him. She did. They were married in three weeks.
The marriage only lasted 20 months, though.
What do you think of the name Svetlana?
Update, 8/9/16: Though I don’t have any data to back it up, TIME magazine claims that “thousands” of babies in Russia were named after Svetlana:
Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, was born on February 28, 1926. Though brutal to the Russian public, Stalin was said to fawn over his daughter; she became a celebrity on the order of Shirley Temple in Russia, with thousands of babies named in her honor.
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