Meaning & History
Dutch short form of Jozef.
Related Names
Other Languages & CulturesJozef, Zef (Albanian) Yousef, Yousif, Youssef, Yousuf, Yusef, Yusuf (Arabic) Youcef (Arabic (Maghrebi)) Hovsep (Armenian) Yusup (Avar) Yusif (Azerbaijani) Joseba (Basque) Iosif (Belarusian) 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) 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) Iosif (Greek) 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) Iosif (Romanian) Iosif, Osip (Russian) 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)
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Entry updated February 28, 2019