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Can anyone tell me anything about the name Josa? I believe it's male and Hungarian.
It's probably pronounced something like "YOH-shah" or "YOH-shaw".
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It's probably pronounced something like "YOH-shah" or "YOH-shaw".
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"....A simple I love you means more than money...."- Frank Sinatra
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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.
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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