Jožef
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/joʐef/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jožef is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Laos it is the 2nd most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 204(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 25as Josef
- ESSpain1 in 103as Jose
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jožef itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #46 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 688 (measured from records)
- 1 in 204 (inferred from the name graph)
5,164,752 named Jose, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Joseph in US United States, NG Nigeria, Josep in BR Brazil, ES Spain, Jose in EC Ecuador, LA Laos and Josef in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jožef counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 5,164,752as Jose | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | Josep | 44 |
| US United States | #12 | 1,600,667as Joseph | 1 in 208 | 1.6M | Joseph | 688 |
| NG Nigeria | #15 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 207 | — | Joseph | 177 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 590,465as Jose | 1 in 29 | 590K | Jose | 68 |
| ES Spain | #92 | 487,678as Jose | 1 in 103 | 532K | Josep | 226 |
| CZ Czechia | #9 | 422,634as Josef | 1 in 25 | 423K | Josef | 184 |
| PL Poland | #22 | 188,007 | 1 in 204 | 196K | Józef | 123 |
| HN Honduras | — | 170,919as José | 1 in 54 | 171K | Joeseph | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 127,526as Jose | 1 in 40 | 128K | — | 21 |
| LA Laos | #2 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 248 | — | Jose | 25 |
5,164,752 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling jose. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RNP — cumulative registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph Schemerl von Leythenbachb. 1754SIAustrian architect (1754-1844)
- Peter Mislejb. 1761SInot in their usual nameSlovene philosopher
- Jožef Šlezingerb. 1794RSSerbian composer
- Jožef Krajncb. 1821SISlovene jurist, philosopher and politician
- Jožef Petkovšekb. 1861SISlovene painter (1861-1898)
- Jožef Kerecb. 1892HUSlovenian prelate (1892-1974)
- Jožef Pogačnikb. 1902SISlovene archbishop
- Jožef Smejb. 1922SISlovenian Roman Catholic Bishop (1922-2020)
- Jožef Holpertb. 1961RSSerbian handball player
- Joseph Srakab. 1991SISlovenian model and fashion designer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jožef mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jožef?
- In the etymology graph, Jose, Joseph and Joe are forms of the same name in other languages; Jože is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Jožef?
- A machine transcription gives /joʐef/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Jožef a male or female name?
- Jožef is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- In which country does Jožef have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 million people named Jose, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jožef most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jožef is densest in Poland — about 1 in 204 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jožef?
- In Poland, the national register counted 188,007 people named Jožef in 2026, about 1 in 204 residents.
- How common is Jožef compared with other names?
- In Laos, Jožef is the 2nd most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo%C5%BEefThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jožef” — the 2nd most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.