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[Facts] Re: Josa
I can't find any reference to Josa as a Hungarian male name on the official Hungarian Names List (http://www.origo.hu/utonevtar/index.html - in Hungarian but you can figure it out reasonably well - Keresztnév means 'Christian name', Becenév is roughly equivalent to 'nickname', Női név means 'female name' and Férfi név means 'male name').I did find Józsa, which is essentially a Hungarian short form of Josephine. But nothing resembling Josa more closely for that, for male or female.I believe the Hungarian list is proscriptive (meaning, Hungarians naming their children can only use the names on the list) so at a glance it doesn't appear that Josa is a legit Hungarian name.
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It appeared many times on an old census, but I suppose that could have been a misspelling.Thanks. :)
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I have not found Josa as a Hungarian male name however it has shown up as a female name in Sanskrit (prounced JoSHAH) and it means woman
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