Jozef
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jozef is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Joseph, son of Jacob (Biblical character).
- GTGuatemala1 in 10◐
- CUCuba1 in 12
- VEVenezuela1 in 16
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.8M ●
- #4 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 618 ●
- 1 in 25 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
71M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jose in BR Brazil, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 10 more, Joseph in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 8 more, Josef in CZ Czechia and Giuseppe in IT Italy.
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●
Joseph, son of Jacob (Biblical character)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #1 | 11,814,473 | 5.5M rec. | — | 4.3K | Jose | 189 |
| AR Argentina | #3 | 10,981,310 | 5.9M rec. | — | 4K | Jose | 198 |
| MX Mexico | #2 | 9,569,690 | 7.5M rec. | — | 3.6K | Jose | 318 |
| BR Brazil | #2 | 5,164,752 | 5.8M rec. | 1 in 41 | 5.8M | Jose | 263 |
| PE Peru | #2 | 4,191,402 | 2.4M rec. | — | 696K | Jose | 185 |
| GT Guatemala | #1 | 3,716,283 | 227K rec. | — | 3.2K | Jose | 151 |
| US United States | #7 | 1,598,759 | 29M rec. | 1 in 208 | 1.6M | Joseph | 618 |
| CL Chile | #5 | 1,556,471 | 141K rec. | — | 1K | Jose | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | #17 | 1,221,999 | 1.2M rec. | — | 946 | Joseph | 304 |
| CU Cuba | #10 | 1,006,805 | 46K rec. | — | — | Joseph | 88 |
| PH Philippines | #7 | 784,579 | 1.1M rec. | — | — | Joseph | 190 |
| TZ Tanzania | #2 | 772,541 | 12K rec. | — | — | Joseph | 76 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish998K69%
- English89K6%
- Czech87K6%
- Western Frisian80K6%
- Dutch80K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 997,690 | 69% |
| English | 89,441 | 6% |
| Czech | 86,572 | 6% |
| Western Frisian | 80,321 | 6% |
| Dutch | 79,577 | 5% |
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●
Jozef is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, a male given name, equivalent to English Joseph
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 9 |
| 1915 | 7 |
| 1916 | 8 |
| 1917 | 9 |
| 1918 | 15 |
| 1919 | 12 |
| 1920 | 8 |
| 1921 | 7 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 16 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 18 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 17 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 24 |
| 1995 | 24 |
| 1996 | 38 |
| 1997 | 27 |
| 1998 | 30 |
| 1999 | 28 |
| 2000 | 30 |
| 2001 | 31 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 33 |
| 2004 | 28 |
| 2005 | 57 |
| 2006 | 37 |
| 2007 | 35 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 36 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 25 |
| 2012 | 32 |
| 2013 | 29 |
| 2014 | 27 |
| 2015 | 28 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 21 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 22 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 17 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Joseph Addisonb. 1672GBnot in their usual nameEnglish essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672–1719)
- Pavel Jozef Šafárikb. 1795SKSlovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer (1795–1861)
- Jozef Israëlsb. 1824NLDutch painter (1824-1911)
- Pater Damiaanb. 1840BEnot in their usual name19th century Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)
- Jozef Tisob. 1887HUSlovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
- Jozef Gabčíkb. 1912SKCzechoslovak soldier (1912–1942)
- Paul Crutzenb. 1933NLnot in their usual nameDutch climatologist (1933–2021)
- Huub Stevensb. 1953NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Bart Somersb. 1964BEnot in their usual nameBelgian, Flemish politician; mayor of Mechelen
- Armin van Buurenb. 1976NLnot in their usual nameDutch DJ and record producer (born 1976)
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 60 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 509 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jozef?
- We estimate roughly 9.8 million people bear Jozef (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jozef have the most bearers?
- Jozef is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled jose.
- How common is Jozef compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Jozef is the most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
- Is Jozef a male or female name?
- Jozef 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 Jozef mean?
- Recorded meaning: Joseph, son of Jacob (Biblical character)
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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, “Jozef” — the most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.