Meaning & History
From Joseph used in the New Testament to distinguish Joseph the brother of James from the many other characters of that name.
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) 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) 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) Yossel (Yiddish)
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Entry updated June 9, 2023