Jose

Jose is one of the most quietly storied names in the Americas. The Spanish and Portuguese form of Joseph, from the Hebrew Yosef, he will add, it belongs at once to the carpenter husband of Mary and to the literary, political, and everyday life of the Spanish-speaking world: José Martí, José Saramago, José Andrés. In the United States it has spent decades as one of the top names given to boys in Latino households and currently sits near the top 91 overall. Two syllables of warmth, often accented in writing as José, plainer when it travels. The name reads as family, kitchens in the morning, the oldest son's name.