Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Spanish, Portuguese, French
Meaning & History
Spanish and Portuguese form of Joseph, as well as a French variant. In Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions it is occasionally used as a feminine middle name (or the second part of a double name), often paired with María. This was the most popular name for boys in Spain for the first half of the 20th century. A famous bearer was the Portuguese novelist José Saramago (1922-2010).
Related Names
Rootyasaf
Feminine FormJosefa(Portuguese)
Other Languages & CulturesJozef, Zef(Albanian) Yousef, Youssef, Yusef, Yusuf(Arabic) Youcef(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Hovsep(Armenian) Yusif(Azerbaijani) Joseba(Basque) Yusuf(Bengali) Joseph, Joses(Biblical) Ioseph, Ioses(Biblical Greek) Yosef(Biblical Hebrew) Ioseph(Biblical Latin) Jusuf(Bosnian) Yosif(Bulgarian) Josep, Josepa(Catalan) Ghjaseppu(Corsican) Josip, Josipa, Finka, Joško, Joso, Jozefina, Jožica, Jozo(Croatian) Josef, Josefína(Czech) Josef, Josefine(Danish) Jozef, Fieke, Fien, Fiene, Jef, Joep, Joop, Joos, Joost, Jos, Josefien, Josepha, Josephine, Josephus, Jozefien, Pien, Sjef(Dutch) Joseph, Jo, Jody, Joe, Joey, Jojo, Josepha, Josephina, Josephine, Josey, Josie, Posie, Posy(English) Jozefo, Joĉjo(Esperanto) Joosep(Estonian) Jósef(Faroese) Jose(Filipino) Jooseppi, Iina, Josefiina, Juuso(Finnish) Xosé(Galician) Ioseb, Soso(Georgian) Josef, Jo, Joschka, Josefine, Joseph, Josepha, Josephine, Jupp, Sepp, Seppel(German) Iosif(Greek) Yosef(Hebrew) Josephus(History) Jozefa, József, Jóska, Józsi(Hungarian) Jósef(Icelandic) Jusuf, Yusuf(Indonesian) Seosamh(Irish) Giuseppa, Giuseppe, Beppe, Giosetta, Giuseppina, Giusi, Giusy, Peppe, Peppi, Peppino, Pina, Pino, Pippo(Italian) Iosephus(Late Roman) Jāzeps(Latvian) Juozapas, Juozas(Lithuanian) Josif(Macedonian) Yusof(Malay) Hohepa(Maori) Josef, Josefine(Norwegian) Josèp(Occitan) Yusuf(Pashto) Yousef, Yusef(Persian) Józef, Józefa, Józefina(Polish) Iosif(Romanian) Iosif, Osip(Russian) Seòsaidh(Scottish Gaelic) Josif(Serbian) Jozef, Jozefína(Slovak) Josip, Jožef, Jožefa, Jože, Jozefa, Jožica, Pepca(Slovene) Yuusuf(Somali) Josef, Josefin, Josefina, Josefine(Swedish) Yusuf(Tajik) Yosif(Tatar) Yusuf(Turkish) Ýusup(Turkmen) Yosyp(Ukrainian) Yousaf(Urdu) Yusup(Uyghur) Yusuf(Uzbek) Issouf, Issoufou(Western African) Yossel(Yiddish)
Same SpellingJose
User SubmissionJosé'
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