Gender Masculine
Scripts Ἰωσῆς(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Greek form of Joses.

Related Names

Other Languages & CulturesJozef, Zef(Albanian) Yousef, Youssef, Yusef, Yusuf(Arabic) Youcef(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Hovsep(Armenian) Yusif(Azerbaijani) Joseba(Basque) Yusuf(Bengali) Joseph, Joses(Biblical) 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, Joop, Joos, Joost, Jos, Josephus, 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(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(Maori) Josef(Norwegian) Josèp(Occitan) Yusuf(Pashto) Yousef, Yusef(Persian) Józef(Polish) José, , Zezé(Portuguese) Iosif(Romanian) Iosif, Osip(Russian) Seòsaidh(Scottish Gaelic) Josif(Serbian) Jozef(Slovak) Josip, Jožef, Jože(Slovene) Yuusuf(Somali) Jose, José, Josepe, Pepe, Pepito(Spanish) Josef(Swedish) Yusuf(Tajik) Yosif(Tatar) Yusuf(Turkish) Ýusup(Turkmen) Yosyp(Ukrainian) Yousaf(Urdu) Yusup(Uyghur) Yusuf(Uzbek) Issouf, Issoufou(Western African) Yossel(Yiddish)

Sources & References

  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g2500, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g2500.
Entry updated October 6, 2024