Josip

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Josip is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 55◐
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 367
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈80K ●

across 10 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
163 ●

277K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 55 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

JosipLatin · Croatian●579K records
ЈосипCyrillic · Macedonian●148 records
ΓιοσιπGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Јосип in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Josip is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#477,324270K rec.1 in 5577KJosip163
RS Serbia#2121,903659 rec.——Josip45
SI Slovenia#2611,449△49 rec.1 in 1.5K1.4KJosip20
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#391,20580 rec.—68Josip41
FR France—712541 rec.——Josip83
US United States—5733.1K rec.1 in 581K573Josip149
SE Sweden—554△112 rec.1 in 18K554Josip30
CH Switzerland—484262 rec.——Josip44
PE Peru—344327 rec.——Josip18
CA Canada—275226 rec.—5Josip42
GB United Kingdom—21997 rec.——Josip32
CL Chile—21814 rec.—1Josip18

Roughly 77K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 55). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian579K96%
  • German8.1K1%
  • English4.8K1%
  • Hungarian3.8K1%
  • Spanish1.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian578,69796%
German8,1281%
English4,8081%
Hungarian3,7621%
Spanish1,1111%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Josip is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Josip är en sydslavisk form av → Josef. En känd namnbärare är det forna Jugoslaviens diktator, Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, männl. Vom., slowenische, serbische, kroatische [’josip] Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060020002005201020152020466 · 2019

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Josip in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999445
2000441
2001441
2002440
2003439
2004437
2005434
2006430
2007422
2008424
2009421
2010418
2011412
2012409
2013409
2014425
2015438
2016443
2017448
2018453
2019466
2020459

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Josip Jelačić, b. 1801Josip Broz Tito, b. 1892Josip Skoblar, b. 1941Josip Šimunić, b. 1978Josip Iličić, b. 1988Josip Pivarić, b. 1989Josip Drmić, b. 1992Josip Juranović, b. 1995Josip Šutalo, b. 2000Josip Stanišić, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Josip
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202177K#5
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202162K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20082.3K#101
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20092.3K#101
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20102.2K#102
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20112.2K#106
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20122.1K#106
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20132.1K#110
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20142K#111
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20152K#114
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.9K#115
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171.9K#119

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 298 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Josip?
We estimate roughly 80 thousand people bear Josip (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Josip have the most bearers?
We estimate about 77 thousand people bear Josip in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled josip.
Where is Josip most common?
Josip is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 55 people carrying it.
How common is Josip compared with other names?
In Croatia, Josip is the 4th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Josip a male or female name?
Josip is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Josip mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josip” — the 4th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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