Given name · Serbo-Croatian
Јосип
“(God) shall add”
Јосип (Jòsip) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jòsip.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Јосип goes back to Hebrew יוֹסֵף (Yōsēṗ), meaning “(God) shall add.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Јосип comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Јосип developed from Ἰωσήφ.
Јосип’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Јосип developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰωσήφ. In Serbian usage, Јосип has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joseph. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Јосип can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jòsip.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Јосип has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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