Josiel
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 28 babies a year in the US.
Josiel by the numbers
Josiel was given to 28 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 30 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Josiel
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Josiel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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