Josipa
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josipa is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Jòsip + -a.
- HRCroatia1 in 273◐
- BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 2.2K
- SISlovenia1 in 9.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 90 ●
- 1 in 273 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
43K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Јосипа 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●
From Jòsip + -a.
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #58 | 15,466 | 41K rec. | 1 in 273 | 15K | Josipa | 90 |
| US United States | — | 829 | 717 rec. | — | — | Josipa | 73 |
| DE Germany | — | 695 | 626 rec. | — | listed | Josipa | 66 |
| AT Austria | — | 264 | 110 rec. | — | 25 | Josipa | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #854 | 221△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 9.5K | 221 | Josipa | 3 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #355 | 200 | 45 rec. | — | — | Josipa | 20 |
| AU Australia | — | 197 | 178 rec. | — | 1 | Josipa | 30 |
| RS Serbia | — | 98 | 61 rec. | — | — | Josipa | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 95△ | 28 rec. | 1 in 107K | 95 | Josipa | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 95 | 64 rec. | — | — | Josipa | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 77 | 51 rec. | — | — | Josipa | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 66 | 8 rec. | — | 64 | Josipa | 6 |
Roughly 15K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 273). 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●
- Croatian105K97%
- German9871%
- English6441%
- Hungarian5311%
- French1221%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 105,181 | 97% |
| German | 987 | 1% |
| English | 644 | 1% |
| Hungarian | 531 | 1% |
| French | 122 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 47 |
| 2000 | 48 |
| 2001 | 47 |
| 2002 | 51 |
| 2003 | 53 |
| 2004 | 53 |
| 2005 | 51 |
| 2006 | 51 |
| 2007 | 50 |
| 2008 | 52 |
| 2009 | 54 |
| 2010 | 55 |
| 2011 | 55 |
| 2012 | 55 |
| 2013 | 58 |
| 2014 | 66 |
| 2015 | 66 |
| 2016 | 69 |
| 2017 | 76 |
| 2018 | 83 |
| 2019 | 85 |
| 2020 | 86 |
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●
- Josipa Mauerb. 1930HRactress
- Josipa Lisacb. 1950HRCroatian pop singer
- Josipa Rimacb. 1980HRCroatian politician
- Josipa Burab. 1985HRCroatian basketball player (born 1985)
- Josipa Kusićb. 1988HRCroatian model
- Josipa Bokanovićb. 1991DEassociation football player
- Josipa Mamićb. 1996HRCroatian handballer
- Josipa Jurkovićb. 1999HRCroatian rower (1999–)
- Josipa Jagodićb. 2004HRfigure skater
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15K | #60 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 312 | #335 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 305 | #338 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 298 | #346 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 294 | #349 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 285 | #357 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 277 | #365 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 276 | #369 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 270 | #377 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 262 | #386 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 259 | #391 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 82 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Josipa?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Josipa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Josipa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Josipa in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled josipa.
- Where is Josipa most common?
- Josipa is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 273 people carrying it.
- How common is Josipa compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Josipa is the 58th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Josipa a male or female name?
- Josipa is a female 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 Josipa mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Jòsip + -a.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Josipa” — the 58th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.