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I prefer the Joseph spelling but there is nothing wrong with this name. I don’t associate the name solely with Stalin.
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Josef Mengele was a doctor with the SS rank of Hauptsturmführer.
After his military service in the Eastern Front he was assigned to the Race and Settlement Main Office. In 1943 he applied for a transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp, which was accepted. During his service in Auschwitz he developed a macabre reputation for conducting medical experiments on inmates, especially on children. He was also responsible for choosing those who were gassed and those who weren't. His cheerful personality and unbothered mannerisms while doing all of this, combined with his good looks and dapper appearance, earned him the nickname of "The Angel of Death" among the camp prisoners.
He escaped to Argentina after the war. As time went on more and more Holocaust survivors came forward with first hand accounts of his atrocities... but he evaded his own manhunt, dodging the capture efforts of the Mossad, West Germany and several Nazi hunters. He moved to Paraguay, while finally settling in Brazil, where he died in 1979.
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After his military service in the Eastern Front he was assigned to the Race and Settlement Main Office. In 1943 he applied for a transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp, which was accepted. During his service in Auschwitz he developed a macabre reputation for conducting medical experiments on inmates, especially on children. He was also responsible for choosing those who were gassed and those who weren't. His cheerful personality and unbothered mannerisms while doing all of this, combined with his good looks and dapper appearance, earned him the nickname of "The Angel of Death" among the camp prisoners.
He escaped to Argentina after the war. As time went on more and more Holocaust survivors came forward with first hand accounts of his atrocities... but he evaded his own manhunt, dodging the capture efforts of the Mossad, West Germany and several Nazi hunters. He moved to Paraguay, while finally settling in Brazil, where he died in 1979.
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Also Romansh:
Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://sursassiala.ch/2015/01/15/familienforschung/
https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/Y2vV5XpvZe3
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=65
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Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://sursassiala.ch/2015/01/15/familienforschung/
https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/Y2vV5XpvZe3
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=65
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Also Icelandic and Faroese, written as Jósef. [noted -ed]
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I love my name. But the f jacked me up in school when it came to spelling. Like the word phone. Ph made no sense to me lol.
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I would never use this name because I immediately think of Josef Stalin and Josef Fritzl, two of some of the most evil men in history whenever I hear it.
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The name Josef has a lot of problems.
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Despite the association with Stalin, I still like this name. I won't let one extremely evil man taint this name for me!
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Add Usage: Dutch, Finnish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: YAW-zəf (German), YO-səf (Dutch, Danish), YO-sehf (Czech, Finnish), YUW-sehf (Swedish), JO-səf (English)
Meaning: Form of Iosephus (see JOSEPH) used in several languages.
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Pronounced: YAW-zəf (German), YO-səf (Dutch, Danish), YO-sehf (Czech, Finnish), YUW-sehf (Swedish), JO-səf (English)
Meaning: Form of Iosephus (see JOSEPH) used in several languages.
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Joseph looks much better.
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Josef Salvat is an Australian singer. He's famous for his cover of Rihanna's song "Diamonds".
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Josef K was the main character in Franz Kafka's The Trial.
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The name Josef was given to 91 baby boys born in the US in 2012.
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Josef Čapek (1887-1945) was a Czech painter, graphic artist, stage designer and writer.
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Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German-born painter, designer, writer and teacher.
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Makes me think of that Nazi physician Josef Mengele.
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Josef is a very cool name, but I don't like the English pronunciation Jo-seff. It's Yo-sef.
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This spelling makes me think of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who held his daughter hostage and fathered children with her.
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Josef Kaplický (19th March 1889, Vysoké Mýto - 1st February 1962, Prague) was painter, graphic designer, sculptor, designer and theoretician.
Josef Kaplický (18th April 1995) was son of Jan Kaplický and grandson of Josef Kaplický (KAHP-lit-skee).
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Josef Kaplický (18th April 1995) was son of Jan Kaplický and grandson of Josef Kaplický (KAHP-lit-skee).
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Urgh. The f at the end makes it ugly in my opinion. Sorry to all Josefs out there.
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Famous bearers:
Jazz singer Josef Erich Zawinul, born 7 July 1932, Wien, Österreich. Date of Death: 11 September 2007, Wien, Austria. Singer Josef Vojtek, born 21 June 1965 Teplice, Czechoslovakia. Actor Josef Dvořák, born 25 April 1942, Horní Cerekev, Czechoslovakia.
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Jazz singer Josef Erich Zawinul, born 7 July 1932, Wien, Österreich. Date of Death: 11 September 2007, Wien, Austria. Singer Josef Vojtek, born 21 June 1965 Teplice, Czechoslovakia. Actor Josef Dvořák, born 25 April 1942, Horní Cerekev, Czechoslovakia.
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Stalin, baby! All the way! USSR! Soviet Union! All that jazz! But it's still a very nice name.
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Pronounced as "Yaw-ZEHF". Josef´s pet forms: Joska, Joza, Jozhin, Zefan, Pepa, Pepé, Pepino, Pepito.
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I usually prefer 'f' to 'ph', but this name makes me think of both Stalin and Mengele, which are not good associations! Of course, most people probably won't have that thought at all, and there's no real reason it shouldn't be used.
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German pronunciation: YO-zef. [noted -ed]
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This is a very beautiful name, but who wants to share his name with Stalin?
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