Gender Masculine
Usage Russian, Belarusian, Romanian, Greek
Scripts Іосіф (Belarusian) Pron. /ɪ.ˈo.sjɪf/ (Russian) /i.ˈo.sjif/ (Belarusian) /ˈjo.sif/ (Romanian) [key ·simplify]
Meaning & History
Russian, Belarusian, Romanian and Greek form of Joseph.
Related Names
Rootyasaf
VariantOsip (Russian)
Other Languages & CulturesJozef, Zef (Albanian) Yousef, Yousif, Youssef, Yousuf, Yusef, Yusuf (Arabic) Youcef (Arabic (Maghrebi)) Hovsep (Armenian) Yusup (Avar) Yusif (Azerbaijani) Joseba (Basque) Yousuf, Yusuf (Bengali) Joseph, Joses (Biblical) Ioseph, Ioses (Biblical Greek) Yosef (Biblical Hebrew) Ioseph (Biblical Latin) Jusuf (Bosnian) Yosif (Bulgarian) Josep (Catalan) Ghjaseppu (Corsican) Josip, Joško, Joso, Jozo (Croatian) Josef (Czech) Josef (Danish) Jozef, Jef, Joep, Joes, Joop, Joos, Joost, Jos, Josephus, Sef, Sep, Sjef (Dutch) Joseph, Jo, Jody, Joe, Joey, Jojo, Josey (English) Jozefo, Joĉjo (Esperanto) Joosep (Estonian) Jósef (Faroese) Jose (Filipino) Jooseppi, Juuso (Finnish) Joseph, José (French) Xosé (Galician) Ioseb, Soso (Georgian) Josef, Jo, Joschka, Joseph, Jupp, Sepp, Seppel (German) Yosef (Hebrew) Josephus (History) József, Jóska, Józsi (Hungarian) Jósef (Icelandic) Jusuf, Yusuf, Yusup (Indonesian) Seosamh (Irish) Giuseppe, Beppe, Giusi, Peppe, Peppi, Peppino, Pino, Pippo (Italian) Iosephus (Late Roman) Jāzeps (Latvian) Juozapas, Juozas (Lithuanian) Josif (Macedonian) Yusof (Malay) Hohepa (Māori) Josef (Norwegian) Josèp (Occitan) Yusuf (Pashto) Yousef, Yusef (Persian) Józef (Polish) José, Zé, Zezé (Portuguese) Yusuf (Quranic) Seòsaidh (Scottish Gaelic) Josif (Serbian) Jozef (Slovak) Josip, Jožef, Jože, Juš (Slovene) Yuusuf (Somali) Jose, José, Joselito, Josepe, Pepe, Pepito (Spanish) Josef (Swedish) Yusuf (Tajik) Yosıf (Tatar) Yusuf (Turkish) Ýusup (Turkmen) Yosyp, Yosyf (Ukrainian) Yousaf, Yousuf, Yusuf (Urdu) Yusup (Uyghur) Yusuf (Uzbek) Issouf, Issoufou, Youssouf (Western African) Yossel (Yiddish)
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Entry updated May 26, 2026